AMBOYNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amboyna mean? 

• AMBOYNA (noun)
  The noun AMBOYNA has 2 senses:

1. mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus

2. tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

  Familiarity information: AMBOYNA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMBOYNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

amboyna; Andaman redwood

Hypernyms ("amboyna" is a kind of...):

rosewood (hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork)

Holonyms ("amboyna" is a substance of...):

amboyna; padauk; padouk; Pterocarpus indicus (tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

amboyna; padauk; padouk; Pterocarpus indicus

Hypernyms ("amboyna" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "amboyna"):

amboyna; Andaman redwood (mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus)

Holonyms ("amboyna" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)