Philippine mahogany

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

• See asana.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood
• noun red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish