dalbergia

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. a large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. A large genus of fine tropical forest-trees and climbing shrubs, natural order Leguminosæ, some species of which yield most excellent timber.

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• n. large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers