mahogany

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various tropical American evergreen trees of the genus Swietenia, valued for their hard, reddish-brown wood.
2. n. The wood of any of these trees, especially that of S. mahogani, used in making furniture.
3. n. Any of several trees having wood resembling true mahogany.
4. n. The wood of any of these trees.
5. n. A moderate reddish brown.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tree, Swietenia Mahagoni, of the natural order Meliaceœ. It is native in the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, and the Florida keys. Its importance lies in its timber.
2. n. The wood of the above tree. It combines a rich reddish-brown color, beauty of grain, and susceptibility of polish with unusual soundness, uniformity, freedom from warping, durability, and largeness of dimensions. On account of its costliness, its use is restricted mainly to furniture-making, cabinet-work, etc., often in the form of a veneer. The quality of the timber varies with the conditions of its growth, exposed situations and solid ground yielding the finest. Mahogany with figured grain is especially prized, and is obtained largely, but not exclusively, from the San Domingo and Cuba wood, called Spanish mahogany. The Honduras mahogany, or bay-wood, shipped from the Bay of Campeachy, is more open-grained and plain, and of larger dimensions, yielding logs sometimes 40 feet in length. The Mexican mahogany has the largest growth of all, is similar to the last-named, and supplements its diminishing supply.
3. n. A table, especially a dinner-table.
4. n. A kind of drink. See the quotation.
5. n. An old British collectors' name for a European and Asiatic noctuid moth, Amphipyra tetra.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
2. n. uncountable The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
3. n. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood
4. adj. Made of mahogany.
5. adj. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (Swietenia Mahogoni), found in tropical America.
2. n. The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.
3. n. colloq. A table made of mahogany wood.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture
2. n. any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
3. n. a shade of brown with a tinge of red