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Definition of Rosewoods
1. rosewood [n] - See also: rosewood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosewoods
Literary usage of Rosewoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The rosewoods of Central America are supposed to come from species of Dalbergia.
A similar wood of Colombia under the name of negrillo or granadillo is a ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The best known rosewoods are from Brazil and other parts of South America, ...
Other countries have rosewoods produced by trees of other families, ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"... are said to yield this wood, but there is some uncertainty about the origin
of the various commercial rosewoods. 270. ..."
4. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"Mazatlan is the city of rich rosewoods and mahogany, with a beautiful but dangerous
harbor, in which our prudent captain does not care to linger. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... are also believed to be rosewoods, but in general the botanist is still
doubtful, although various kinds' of rosewood, imported from South . ..."
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