satinwood

noun

• 1 [mass noun] glossy yellowish timber from a tropical tree, valued for cabinetmaking.

• 2the tropical hardwood tree that produces satinwood.

  • Two species in the family Rutaceae: Ceylon satinwood (Chloroxylon swietenia), native to India and Sri Lanka, and West Indian (or Jamaican) satinwood (Zanthoxylum flava), native to the Caribbean, Bermuda, and southern Florida
• used in names of trees which yield high-quality timber resembling satinwood, e.g. Nigerian satinwood.