amboyna

1. 1.

   mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus

   SynonymsAndaman redwood

   Broaderrosewood
2. 2.

   tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

   SynonymspadaukpadoukPterocarpus indicus

   Broadertree

   Part ofPterocarpus

Other forms of amboyna

plural

amboynas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amboyna

What does amboyna mean?

amboyna means "mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amboyna?

amboyna has 3 syllables: am-boy-na. The stress falls on "am".

What is another word for amboyna?

Close synonyms include Andaman redwood, padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amboyna a common word?

amboyna is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.