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Definition of Ebony
1. Adjective. Of a very dark black.
2. Noun. A very dark black.
Generic synonyms: Black, Blackness, Inkiness
Derivative terms: Ebonize
3. Noun. Hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys.
4. Noun. Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork.
Group relationships: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Ebony
1. n. A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
2. a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
Definition of Ebony
1. Proper noun. (given name female from=English) from the noun ebony, of mostly African-American usage since the mid-twentieth century. ¹
2. Noun. A hard, heavy, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus ''Diospyros''. ¹
3. Noun. A tree that yields such wood. ¹
4. Noun. A deep, dark black colour. ¹
5. Noun. (slang) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument ¹
6. Adjective. Made of ebony wood. ¹
7. Adjective. A deep, dark black colour. ¹
8. Adjective. Dark-skinned; black; ''especially'' in reference to African-Americans ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ebony
1. a hard, heavy wood [n -NIES]
Medical Definition of Ebony
1. Origin: F. Ebene, L. Ebenus, fr. Gr.; prob. Of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. Hobnim, pl. Cf. Ebon. A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual colour is black, but it also occurs red or green. The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus), and from the Excaecaria glandulosa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebony
Literary usage of Ebony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"2, 2), the stone was speaks of two kinds of ebony, an Indian and an * Though
Kben-ezer is mentioned twice before Samuel's victory (see above), ..."
2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"True ebony is of so deep a black, as to be used to personify blackness. But woods
sold under this name have also reddish, greenish, or yellowish hues, ..."
3. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"Ebony is also yielded by trees belonging to different natural families in ...
130) speaks of two kinds of ebony, an Indian and Ш Ethiopian: he gives the ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"The black ebony, the most highly prized, grows spontaneously in Ceylon, ...
The fruit of many of the ebony trees is considered edible by the natives, ..."
5. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1825)
"The Ebony. Indian ebony, extolled by Virgil, is found in the island of Ceylon,
and according to some on the banks of the Ganges, at Allahabad ;* yet it is ..."
6. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"Ebony, German, the wood of Pear or Yew, stained black. Ebony, Green, in the
English timber trade and in the West Indies is Brya Ebenus [See Ebony, ..."
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