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Philippine Mahogany

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Noun

1. philippine mahogany

red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish

2. cedrela calantas, kalantas, philippine cedar, philippine mahogany, toona calantas

Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Philippine Mahogany

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noun
any of various Philippine hardwood trees of the genus Shorea and related genera: family Dipterocarpaceae

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Philippine Mahogany

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1. 
any of various Philippine and SE Asian trees (esp. genera Shorea and Dipterocarpus) of a family (Dipterocarpaceae, order Theales) of dicotyledonous plants
2. 
the light to dark reddish wood of any of these trees

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Philippine Mahogany

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n.
1. Any of various Southeast Asian hardwood trees of the genus Shorea and related genera, having light to dark reddish-brown wood.
2. The wood of any of these trees.

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