Category:Satinwood

Sat"in*wood`, n. (bot.)

Defn: the hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an east indian tree (chloroxylon swietnia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in Cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of Prickly ash (xanthoxylum caribæum) growing in florida and the west Indies.