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Definition of Cocobolo

1. Noun. A valuable timber tree of tropical South America.

Definition of Cocobolo

1. n. A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

Definition of Cocobolo

1. Noun. An oily tropical hardwood from Central America. ¹

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Definition of Cocobolo

1. a tropical tree [n -LOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocobolo

Literary usage of Cocobolo

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

1. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1833)
"cocobolo amarillo.—Like rose-wood ; very tough and hard; seldom grows to more ... cocobolo prieto.—A very tough, hard wood, of a beautiful figured grain (I ..."

2. South America from a Surgeon's Point of View by Franklin Henry Martin (1922)
"Many rooms of his home are filled with unusually beautiful cocobolo and mahogany carvings. His art gallery contains some of the finest works of Peruvian ..."

3. Sunsetby Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"Send for catalog 15 styles with German stag, lam- ". inated leather lor cocobolo I handles. V of Marble's 60 Outine Specialties and for art folder on ..."

4. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... anciently inhabited, and called cocobolo. I observed fragments of pottery, and of vessels of stone, strewed all over the shore; and in the little cove ..."

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