calamander
English
bookmatched veneer
Etymology
From Sinhalese [script needed] (kaḷu-madīriya), perhaps from Coromandel ebony (see coromandel), changed by association with Sinhalese කළු (kaḷu, “black”);[1] or perhaps a metathetic variant of coromandel[2] via Dutch kalamanderhout.[3][4]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæləˌmændə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæləˌmændɚ/
- Hyphenation: cal‧a‧man‧der
Noun
calamander (usually uncountable, plural calamanders)
- A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially Diospyros quaesita.
Synonyms
- coromandel wood, coromandel
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calamander under calamander wood in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
Calamander wood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Diospyros quaesita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Diospyros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Diospyros on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “calamander”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “calamander”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “calamander”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “calamander”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- Land camera