Rosewood vs. Ebony — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rosewood and Ebony
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Rosewood
Rosewood refers to any of a number of richly hued timbers, often brownish with darker veining, but found in many different hues.
Ebony
Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, most commonly yielded by several species in the genus Diospyros, which also contains the persimmons. Ebony is dense enough to sink in water.
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.
Ebony
Heavy blackish or very dark brown timber from a mainly tropical tree.
Rosewood
The wood of any of these trees, used for cabinetwork and musical instruments.
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Ebony
A tree of tropical and warm-temperate regions which produces ebony.
Rosewood
The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
Ebony
Any of various tropical Asian or African trees of the genus Diospyros.
Rosewood
Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
Ebony
The wood of such a tree, especially the hard black heartwood of D. ebenum or certain other species, used in cabinetwork and inlaying and for piano keys.
Rosewood
The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.
Ebony
The hard dark wood of various other trees.
Rosewood
Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).
Ebony
The color black; ebon.
Rosewood
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.
Ebony
Made of or suggesting ebony.
Rosewood
Hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
Ebony
Black in color.
Rosewood
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
Ebony
(uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
Ebony
(countable) A tree that yields such wood.
Ebony
A deep, dark black colour.
Ebony
A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
Ebony
Made of ebony wood.
Ebony
A deep, dark black colour.
Ebony
Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.
Ebony
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
Ebony
Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
Ebony
A very dark black
Ebony
Hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
Ebony
Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
Ebony
Very dark black
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