1) Achromatic 2) African American magazine 3) African wood 4) American lifestyle magazine 5) Bar next to an ivory 6) Black 7) Black board 8) Black hardwood 9) Black piano key material 10) Black wood 11) Black-key material 12) Black, on a piano 13) Cabinet wood 14) Cabinet-making material 15) Carving medium
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1) Black 2) Ebon 3) Jet-black 4) Wood
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- a very dark black
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
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Ebony is a dense black wood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros. Ebony is dense enough to sink in water. It is finely-textured and has a very smooth finish when polished, making it valuable as an ornamental wood. The word ebony derives from the Ancient Egyptian hbny, via the Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ében...
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[magazine] Ebony is a monthly magazine for the African-American market. It was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, is also published by Johnson Publishing Company. ==History== Ebony cover photography has since its inception focused on African-American celeb...
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• (n.) 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. • (a.) Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
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A tropical hardwood species of tree, often used for carving, with black heart wood and light brown outer wood.
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A close textured hardwood which is black in colour. Ebony is resistant to decay although, it is brittle. From the 17thC in Britain it was thinly cut as a veneer and used for banding and inlay decoration. Other woods such as fruitwoods were stained black or ebonised to imitate ebony and are much more common than the real thing. Coromandel is similar...
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monthly magazine geared to a middle-class African American readership. It was the first black-oriented magazine in the United States to attain ... [2 related articles]
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wood of several species of trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), widely distributed in the tropics. The best is very heavy, almost black, ... [3 related articles]
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See black.
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Origin: F. Ebene, L. Ebenus, fr. Gr.; prob. Of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. Hobnim, pl. Cf. Ebon. ... A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual colour is black, but it also occurs red or green. ... The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus ...
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A very close-textured hardwood which is black in colour. Ebony is unusually resistant to decay. It is, however, brittle, and from the 17thC in Britain was most commonly thinly cut as a veneer, and used for BANDING and INLAID DECORATION. Other woods such as fruitwoods, were stained black, or ebonised, to imitate ebony and are much more common than t …...
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Eb'on·y adjective Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an
ebony countenance. « This
ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.»
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Eb'on·y noun ;
plural Ebonies . [ French
ébène , Latin
ebenus , from Greek ...; probably of Semitic origin; confer Hebrew
hobnīm , plural Confer
Ebon .] A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black...
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Black.
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Ebony is the popular name of various plants of different genera, agreeing in having wood of a dark colour. The best-known ebony is derived from plants of the genus Diospyros, of the natural order Ebenaceae.
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Ebony is the heart-wood of various species of Diospyros, trees of the order Ebenaceae. It is a heavy, deep black wood used in piano keys and inlaying.
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[
n] - hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree 2. [n] - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
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A very dark, hard and smooth wood used for ornamental work.
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ebony tree noun tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
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Any of a group of hardwood trees belonging to the ebony family, especially some tropical persimmons native to Africa and Asia. (Genus chiefly
Diospyros, family Ebenaceae.)
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ébano
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Ebony is an English name for girls. The meaning is `dark wood` The name Ebony is most commonly given to English and Welsh girls. (14 times more often than to American girls.) Ebony is given to boys and girls in the Netherlands The name sounds like: Abina, Abena, Apona, Aponi
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