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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The handsome, dark-colored, mahogany-like wood of Persea Indica and Apollonias Canariensis, lauraceous trees of the Azores and Madeira: so called because it was brought originally from the Canaries. Also called Madeira mahogany.

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