rosewood

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.

The wood of any of these trees, used for cabinetwork and musical instruments.

The wood of various Brazilian trees, especially of Dalbergia nigra.

A wood, lignum rhodium, the source of oil of rhodium, or rosewood-oil; Canary rosewood.

Any of the trees producing rosewood.

In Australia, the timber of any one of four species of trees: Acacia glaucescens, called also rosewood acacia, kaareewan, and myall;

Stenochilus Mitchelli (Eremophila Mitchelli of Bentham), belonging to the family Myoporaceæ and often called sandalwood on account of its very fragrant wood;

Dysoxylum Fraseranum of the family Meliaceæ; and

Synoum glandulosum, the fresh wood of which is of a deep red color and emits an odor like that of the common rose.

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.