ROSEWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rosewood mean? 

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

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

2. any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black

  Familiarity information: ROSEWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosewood"):

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

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

rosewood; rosewood tree (any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rosewood; rosewood tree

Hypernyms ("rosewood" 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 "rosewood"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosewood"):

Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; East Indian rosewood; Indian blackwood; Indian rosewood (East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood)

Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda (an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black)

Dalbergia stevensonii; Honduras rosewood (Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood)

 Context examples 

There was no superfluous ornament in the room—not one modern piece of furniture, save a brace of workboxes and a lady's desk in rosewood, which stood on a side-table: everything—including the carpet and curtains—looked at once well worn and well saved.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)