rosewood Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Rose"wood noun
Definitions
  1. A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.

Webster 1913