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  • noun very dark wood from any of several trees
  • noun any of several trees (especially the acacia) yielding such wood

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Examples

  • Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself.

    Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

  • Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself.

    Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

  • Its use was legalized in 1673 by an act, the preamble of which reads, "The ingenious industry of modern times hath taught the dyers of England the art of fixing, the colours made of logwood, alias blackwood, so as that, by experience, they are found as lasting as the colours made with any sort of dyeing wood whatever."

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • We at length, with difficulty, got our horses up a rocky point, on which grew a thick scrub of "blackwood," as Yuranigh called it, an acacia having many tough stems growing thickly together from one root, and obstructing the passage, and covering the ground with its half-fallen and fallen timber.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823

  • She filled the room with odds and ends picked up at bargain prices, capacious basket chairs, low Chinese blackwood tables, glazed ceramic bowls and jars, blue Chinese rugs, yellow curtains, and cushions made from a bale of faded silk that she had dyed herself in different colors.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • She filled the room with odds and ends picked up at bargain prices, capacious basket chairs, low Chinese blackwood tables, glazed ceramic bowls and jars, blue Chinese rugs, yellow curtains, and cushions made from a bale of faded silk that she had dyed herself in different colors.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • The first was the presence of a thickset, blue-uniformed administrator behind a large, blackwood desk.

    Addicts Tree Riesener 2010

  • The exquisite workmanship of the African Zen designs -- made from African blackwood to machata, for example, stand on their own, but house a deeply penetrating story of the forest from which they came.adschwarz. com and allanschwarz. com

    Summer Rayne Oakes: The Top 10 Coolest African Fair-Trade Fashions 2009

  • Alexander Skarsgard alexandre aja alf algernon blackwood ali t. kokmen ali t. kokmen stalking alice in wonderland alice sebold alien

    CL Anderson's First Post - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • Alexander Skarsgard alexandre aja alf algernon blackwood ali t. kokmen ali t. kokmen stalking alice in wonderland alice sebold alien

    Movie Review: Coraline - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

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