ebenus

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Other economically valuable timber species in the Caribbean Islands include walnut (Juglans jamaicensis, VU), West Indian ebony (Brya ebenus), and poui (Tabebuia heterophylla).

Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands 2008
In Trinidad, Venezuela and Guyana, a dynastic beetle, Ligyrus ebenus, has been reported to attack the crops, but can be effectively controlled by spraying with malathion.

Chapter 31 1987
It is the heart-wood, brought by Diospyros ebenus, which grows in Ceylon and Southern India.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
Quite a few species once thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in recent times, including the local ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus), St. Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica), false gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium).

St. Helena scrub and woodlands 2008
Species that can be found include Picrodendron macrocarpum (yana), Maytenus buxifolia (carne de doncella), Belairia spinosa (yamaguey), Brya ebenus (granadillo) and Diospyrus grisebachii (ébano).

Cuban cactus scrub 2008
In form it approaches the ebenus (Nobis), in colour it more nearly resembles the umlatus (Barnes).

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771
_Diospyros ebenus_, producing hard black wood} apart > aside

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser