Definition of Honduras rosewood

1. Noun. Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood.

Exact synonyms: Dalbergia Stevensonii
Generic synonyms: Rosewood, Rosewood Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honduras Rosewood

Homoousion
Homs
Homyel
Hon
Honda
Hondas
Hondo
Honduran
Honduran capital
Honduran monetary unit
Hondurans
Honduras
Honduras Sign Language
Honduras bark
Honduras mahogany
Honduras rosewood
Honegger
Honest Abe
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Sign Language
Hong Kong dollar
Hong Kong dollars
Hong Kong feet
Hong Kong foot
Hong Kong influenza
Hong Kong toe
Hongcouver
Honiara
Honolulu

Literary usage of Honduras rosewood

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

1. The Handbook of British Honduras ...: Comprising Historical, Statistical by Lindsay William Bristowe, Philip B Wright (1888)
"... one rather scarcer than the other, and not half so lofty, although about the same girth. It is a tree which grows abundantly in Honduras. ROSEWOOD ..."

2. The Indian Forester (1900)
"As regards the turning, polishing, planing, etc., it compares with Honduras rosewood in all respects, except that the polish tends to make the colour rather ..."

3. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1905)
"... defendants bought of the plaintiff about one hundred tons of honduras rosewood for shipment in the course of 1903 at £6 lOg. per ton weight delivered, ..."

4. The Indian Forester; a Quarterly Magazine of Forestry (1881)
"'Ad. per foot cube. 37 logs ditto cedar, ditto, at 4^d. to 5$d.; average 4-^d. 40 logs honduras rosewood were bought in at £5 per ton. ..."

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