rosewood

noun

• 1fragrant close-grained tropical timber with a distinctive fragrance, used particularly for making furniture and musical instruments.

• 2the tree that produces rosewood.

  • Genus Dalbergia, family Leguminosae: several species, including Indian rosewood (D. sissoo), which is often cultivated in warm areas as an ornamental
• used in names of other trees that yield timber similar to rosewood.