philippine mahogany

Questions about philippine mahogany

What does philippine mahogany mean?

philippine mahogany means "red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for philippine mahogany?

Close synonyms include Philippine cedar, kalantas, Toona calantas, Cedrela calantas. 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 philippine mahogany a common word?

philippine mahogany 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.