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mahogany

/muh-hog-uh-nee/US // məˈhɒg ə ni //UK // (məˈhɒɡənɪ) //

桃花心木,红木,桃花芯木,桃红木

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ma·hog·a·nies.

    • : any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
    • : the wood itself.
    • : any of various similar trees or their wood.Compare African mahogany, Philippine mahogany.
    • : a reddish-brown color.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or made of mahogany.
    • : of the color mahogany.

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Examples

  • Valuable timber trees, like mahogany, can serve as savings accounts, harvested when coffee profits aren’t enough.

  • I’ve ordered this sandwich three times now, and each time, the beef has sported a different shade of red, from mahogany to crimson.

  • Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet and Kirsten Gillibrand all chased the 2020 Democratic nomination and still have mahogany desks at the Capitol.

  • He then referenced the film Anchorman: “I personally have many leather-bound books, and my house smells of rich mahogany.”

  • The floors were softened by cork tiles, the walls by Philippine mahogany paneling.

  • Here, table, highboy chairs, and screen—mahogany, cherry, teak—looked nervous and disproportioned.

  • Nope, he has to be seen landing his chopper on the South Lawn, propping his leather loafers on his mahogany desk in the Oval.

  • Mike Lennon and I were two of a dozen speakers who stood next to the mahogany casket.

  • She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

  • The woods, however, are again pretty thick, and some inferior mahogany among it is used for furniture.

  • You may know it by all these signs of mahogany furniture, and leather upholstery, and waiters of reverential deportment.

  • It was built at Chatham, from the design of Mr. Oliver Lang, of mahogany and on the diagonal principle.

  • A magnificent mahogany tree, whose luxuriant branches overshadowed the whole clearing, stood nearly in the centre.