Definition of Marble-wood

1. Noun. Hard marbled wood.

Exact synonyms: Marblewood
Generic synonyms: Zebrawood, Zebrawood Tree
Substance meronyms: Andaman Marble, Diospyros Kurzii, Marblewood

2. Noun. Large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood.
Exact synonyms: Andaman Marble, Diospyros Kurzii, Marblewood
Group relationships: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Terms within: Marblewood
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marble-wood

maraud
marauded
marauder
marauders
marauding
marauds
maravedis
maravilla
maraviroc
marbelize
marbelized
marbelizes
marbelizing
marble
marble-wood (current term)
marble bone disease
marble bones
marble bones disease
marble cake
marble cakes
marble cheese
marble cutters' phthisis
marble orchard
marble orchards
marbled
marbled cat
marbled cats
marbled polecat
marbled polecats

Literary usage of Marble-wood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... upon or over the soil, composed of brick, stone, marble, wood, or other proper substance connected together and designed for use in the position it is ..."

2. Hydraulic Tables, Coefficients, and Formulae: For Finding the Discharge of by John Neville (1875)
"List of Contents Introductory Chapter — Tools required for Methods of Working—Yellow Sienna Marble: Wood Painting—Observations on the different Process of ..."

3. The Construction of Roads and Streets by Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark (1887)
"... Yellow Sienna Marble: Wood Painting—Observations on the different Process of ... Marble: Varieties of the Marble : Wood— Ash : Painting of Ash—Breche ..."

4. Locomotive Engine Driving: A Practical Manual for Engineers in Charge of by Michael Reynolds (1888)
"... Varieties of the Marble : Wood— Ash : Painting of Ash— Breche (Brec- I Process of Working— The Painting of Iron with Vert de Mer Marble: Description of ..."

5. A Treatise on Earthy and Other Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1888)
"... Introductory Chapter — Tools required for Methods of Working—Yellow Sienna Marble: Wood ... Marble: Varieties of the Marble : Wood—Ash: Painting of ..."

6. Safe Railway Working: A Treatise on Railway Accidents: Their Cause and by Clement Edwin Stretton (1887)
"List of Contents Introductory Chapter — Tools required for Methods of Working—Yellow Sienna Marble: Wood Painting—Observations on the different Process of ..."

7. Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilages by Ferdinand Dawidowsky (1905)
"Cement for attaching metal letters to glass, marble, wood, etc. Dissolve over a water-bath 5 parts of glue in a mixture of 15 parts of copal varnish, ..."

8. Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilages by Ferdinand Dawidowsky (1906)
"Cement for attaching metal letters to glass, marble, wood, etc. Dissolve over a water-bath 5 parts of glue in a mixture of 15 parts of copal varnish, ..."

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