rosewood
noun
- any of a number of valuable hard, reddish, black-streaked woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, obtained from certain tropical trees (esp. genus Dalbergia of the pea family) and used in making furniture, pianos, etc.
- a tree yielding such wood
See rosewood in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(rōzˈwo͝odˌ)
noun- Any of various tropical or semitropical leguminous trees of the genera Tipuana, Pterocarpus, or Dalbergia, having hard reddish or dark wood with a strongly marked grain.
- The wood of any of these trees, used in cabinetwork.
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