mahogany
IPA: mʌhˈɑgʌni
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
- (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
- (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
- A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
- (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
adjective
- Made of mahogany.
- Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
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Examples of "mahogany" in Sentences
- All mahogany or sapele construction.
- It was a simple mahogany box camera.
- This is particularly effective on mahogany.
- It is approximately the color of the wood, mahogany.
- Flora include oak, cedar, sapodilla, mahogany and chokecherry.
- It features a quilted, maple body and neck with a mahogany top.
- The room is over long and has an oak and mahogany parquetry floor.
- Note the rounded contour, the mahogany colour and the central scar.
- It had a thin slab style mahogany body and a one piece mahogany neck.
- The lava flows on the northeast flank have mountain mahogany and juniper.