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 Sat·in·wood n. Bot. The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.
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 Zan·te·wood n. Bot. (a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic.  See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.  (b) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
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 Yel·low·wood n. Bot. The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).  All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
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 Chloroxylon swietenia
      n : East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood;
          [syn: satinwood, satinwood tree]