noun
1. hard marbled wood
• Syn: ↑marble-wood
• Hypernyms: ↑zebrawood, ↑zebrawood tree
• Substance Holonyms: ↑marble-wood, ↑Andaman marble, ↑Diospyros kurzii
2. large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
• Syn: ↑marble-wood, ↑Andaman marble, ↑Diospyros kurzii
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Diospyros, ↑genus Diospyros
• Substance Meronyms: ↑marble-wood
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun1.
a. : a large Asiatic tree (Diospyros kurzii) that has a hard mottled wood — called also Andaman marble
b.
(1) : native olive 1a
2. : the wood of a marblewood
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/mahr"beuhl wood'/, n.
1. any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
2. the wood of any of these trees.
[1745-55; MARBLE + WOOD1]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.