satinwood
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editsatinwood (countable and uncountable, plural satinwoods)
- Woody trees in family Rutaceae
- Chloroxylon swietenia (Ceylon or East Indian satinwood)
- Zanthoxylum flavum (Jamaican satinwood or West Indian satinwood).
- Chloroxylon faho (Madagascar satinwood)
- Murraya paniculata, from southeast Asia and Australia
- Nematolepis squamea, from Australia
- Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia or Zanthoxylum flavum.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion