rosewood

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various tropical trees chiefly of the genus Dalbergia in the pea family, having hard brown to purplish wood with dark brown or black streaks.
• noun The wood of any of these trees, used for cabinetwork and musical instruments.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The wood of various Brazilian trees, especially of Dalbergia nigra.
• noun A wood, lignum rhodium, the source of oil of rhodium, or rosewood-oil; Canary rosewood.
• noun Any of the trees producing rosewood.
• noun In Australia, the timber of any one of four species of trees: Acacia glaucescens, called also rosewood acacia, kaareewan, and myall;
• noun Stenochilus Mitchelli (Eremophila Mitchelli of Bentham), belonging to the family Myoporaceæ and often called sandalwood on account of its very fragrant wood;
• noun Dysoxylum Fraseranum of the family Meliaceæ; and
• noun Synoum glandulosum, the fresh wood of which is of a deep red color and emits an odor like that of the common rose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
• noun the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus.
• noun the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina).
• noun the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
• noun Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
• noun The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black
• noun hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork