Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The horse-flesh mahogany, Lysiloma Sabicu. Also savacu.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a West Indian tree (Lysiloma sabicu)
  • noun the hard dark wood of the sabicu tree, which resembles mahogany in texture

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

  • noun West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value
  • noun the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany

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  • Four different species of cassias (pink, rainbow, coral and golden) were planted, some not commonly found in Key West, as well as a few Lysiloma sabicu native to Cuba.

    KeysNews.com - 2008

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