ZEBRAWOOD TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zebrawood tree mean? 

• ZEBRAWOOD TREE (noun)
  The noun ZEBRAWOOD TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood

  Familiarity information: ZEBRAWOOD TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZEBRAWOOD TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

zebrawood; zebrawood tree

Hypernyms ("zebrawood tree" 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 "zebrawood tree"):

zebrawood (handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork)

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

Connarus guianensis (tropical American and east African tree with strikingly marked hardwood used in cabinetwork)

arariba; Centrolobium robustum (Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood)

Eugenia dicrana; nakedwood (tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood)

Astronium fraxinifolium; goncalo alves (tall tropical American timber tree especially abundant in eastern Brazil; yields hard strong durable zebrawood with straight grain and dark strips on a pinkish to yellowish ground; widely used for veneer and furniture and heavy construction)

marble-wood; marblewood (hard marbled wood)