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Definitions: Mahogany |
MahoganyNoun1. Wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture. 2. Any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mahogany" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Note: Mahogany \Ma*hog"a*ny\, noun. [From the South American name.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: MahoganySynonym: mahogany tree (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term mahogany is also used to refer to a number of similar timbers from other unrelated trees, including several species from the African genus Khaya.
Mahogany is often used to make furniture because it has a beautiful sheen when polished. The timber is water-resistant and in the past it was used in ship-building for this reason. There is a very famous ship called the 'Mahogany ship' that is believed to be buried in the dunes somewhere near Warnambool, Victoria.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mahogany."
Crosswords: Mahogany |
| English words defined with "mahogany": Abraum salts, Acajou, African mahogany, African scented mahogany, African walnut ♦ Burma padauk, Burmese rosewood ♦ Calocarpum zapota, cedar mahogany, Cuban mahogany ♦ Dominican mahogany ♦ Entandrophragma ♦ Fancy woods ♦ genus Entandrophragma, genus Khaya, genus Swietinia ♦ hardtack, Honduras mahogany, Hoop tree ♦ Khaya ♦ Lovoa klaineana, Lysiloma sabicu ♦ mahogany family, mahogany tree, mammee, marmalade tree, Meliaceous, Mountain mahogany ♦ Philippine mahogany, Pouteria zapota, Pterocarpus macrocarpus ♦ red lauan ♦ sabertoothed, sabicu, sabicu wood, sapele mahogany, sapote, Swietenia, Swietinia, Swietinia macrophylla, Swietinia mahogani ♦ To be under the mahogany, To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, true mahogany ♦ Vinatico. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mahogany": acid sludge ♦ boat joiner ♦ JOINER HELPER ♦ mahogany ore. (references) |
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Screenplays | Wha-, ya kidding me? This is hand carved mahogany. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) | |
Lyrics | Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany, ("The Masochism Tango"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mahogany (1975) | |
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 | First years growth of emergency reseeding after the Los Alamos fires. Some of the species planted for erosion control and habitat improvement were prairie junegrass, slender wheatgrass, mountain brome, three awn, gambel's oak, and mountain mahogany.Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Sunset behind the Mountain Mahogany Trees on Steens Mountain.Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Overlook into mountainous area. Mahogany & Unit.Credit: Unknown. |  | Owyhee Canyon in the Mahogany Ridge Wilderness Study Area. OR 3-195.Credit: Unknown. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a room very well fitted up with mahogany furniture, ugly as all furniture of that kind is, and the walls covered with shilling paper. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he had a saying about our clerical friends, that he would never let one of them put his two feet under his mahogany. |
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Business | When given choices of wood, they prefer oak, birch or mahogany wood and are willing to pay extra for furniture made of these woods because they tend to last longer and are perceived as a good investment. (references) | |
Economic History | West Bank | They generally prefer oak, birch, or mahogany and prefer to pay extra for quality furniture, which can be kept for a long time. (references) |
Laos | WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES: AN ESTIMATED 40% OF THE COUNTRY'S LAND AREA REMAINS FORESTED, WITH LARGE STANDS OF TROPICAL HARDWOODS INCLUDING TEAK, MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mahogany" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.05% of the time. "Mahogany" is used about 562 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.05% | 551 | 11,300 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.95% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 562 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mahogany": african mahogany ♦ african scented mahogany ♦ cedar mahogany ♦ cuban mahogany ♦ dominican mahogany ♦ honduras mahogany ♦ mahogany family ♦ mahogany pine ♦ mahogany tree ♦ mountain mahogany ♦ philippine mahogany ♦ sapele mahogany ♦ To be under the mahogany ♦ To put one's legs under some one's mahogany ♦ true mahogany. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mahogany": mahogany-bodied, mahogany-brown, mahogany-cased, mahogany-coloured, mahogany-dark, mahogany-finish, mahogany-like, mahogany-panelled, mahogany-red, mahogany-reinforced, mahogany-stained, mahogany-stiffened, mahogany-there, mahogany-veneered. | |
Ending with "mahogany": all-mahogany, light-mahogany, mock-mahogany. | |
Containing "mahogany": the-carving-of-mahogany-to-fit-the-cami-knickers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mahogany | 238 |
mahogany furniture | 159 |
mahogany rush | 43 |
mahogany tree | 43 |
mahogany wood | 42 |
mahogany door | 41 |
mahogany bed | 30 |
mahogany card | 28 |
mahogany desk | 28 |
mahogany greeting card | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mahogany"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mogani, mogan, tryezë (table), sofër, dru i kuq, bojë mogani. (various references) | |
Arabic | الماهوغانية شجرة, شجرة الماهوغاني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | махагоново дърво, махагонов цвят, махагонов, махагон. (various references) | |
Chinese | 桃花心木 . (various references) | |
Czech | mahagon. (various references) | |
Danish | mahogni (common mahogany, mahogany wood), amerikansk mahogni (baywood, broadleaf mahogany), aegte mahogni (common mahogany, mahogany wood). (various references) | |
Dutch | mahonie (common mahogany, mahogany wood), amerikaans mahonie (baywood, broadleaf mahogany, common mahogany, mahogany wood), Afrikaans mahonie (common mahogany, mahogany wood). (various references) | |
Farsi | چوب ماهون , رنگ قهوه ای مایل به قرمز. (various references) | |
Finnish | aito mahonki (common mahogany, mahogany wood), aidot mahongit (baywood, broadleaf mahogany), afrikanmahonki (African mahogany, common mahogany, khaya, mahogany wood). (various references) | |
French | acajou (common mahogany, mahogany wood). (various references) | |
German | mahagonibaum, mahagoni. (various references) | |
Greek | μαόνι (acajou). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תולע ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | mahagóni. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mahoni. (various references) | |
Italian | mogano (baywood, broadleaf mahogany, Mexican mahogany). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マネーフロー分析 (kind of bicycle favored by housewives running errands around their neighborhood, mafia, maharaja, Mahatma, Mahomet, malaria, Malibu, Mama, management, manager, mannequin, mannequin girl, manometer, maracas, maraschino, marathon, Maya, mayonnaise, monetarism, money laundering, money market, money-flow analysis, moneymaker, muff, muffin, muffler, scarf). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マホガニー . (various references) | |
Korean | 마호가니. (various references) | |
Manx | mahoganee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ahoganymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mulher do marajá, mogno americano (baywood, broadleaf mahogany, common mahogany, mahogany wood), mogno africano (African mahogany, common mahogany, khaya, mahogany wood), mogno, cor de mogno. (various references) | |
Romanian | mahon (acajou), lemn de mahon, acaju (acajou, cashew). (various references) | |
Russian | красное дерево (partridgewood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mahagoni, od mahagonija. (various references) | |
Shona | mururu (red mahogany tree), muchichiri (white mahogany tree). (various references) | |
Spanish | caoba. (various references) | |
Swedish | mahogny. (various references) | |
Thai | ต้นมะฮอกกานี, มะฮอกกานี. (various references) | |
Turkish | maun, kızıl kahverengi (foxy, golden brown, russet, Sorrel). (various references) | |
Ukranian | червоне дерево. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bằng gỗ dái ngựa có m u gỗ dái ngựa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Entandrophragma spp., Khaya spp., Swietenia macrophylla, Swietenia mahagoni, Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Mahogany" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: madhavan, Madhubani, mahajan, mahogony, Maiorano, Manorani, masogany, Mehigan, mohogany. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mahogany" (pronounced muhÄ"gunē) |
| 4 | -g u n ē | agony. |
| 3 | -u n ē | aborigine, accompany, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, larceny, litany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hogmanay. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-m-n-o-y" | |
-3 letters: agony, among, anomy, gamay, hoagy, hogan, mango, mangy, mayan, mynah, ogham. | |
-4 letters: agha, agma, agon, ahoy, amah, anga, anoa, ayah, gama, gamy, hang, homy, hong, hoya, hymn, mana, mano, many, maya, mayo, moan, mony, myna, noma, ogam, yang, yoga, yogh. | |
-5 letters: aah, aga, ago, aha, ama, ana, any, gam, gan, gay, goa, goy, gym, hag, ham, hao, hay, hog, hon, hoy, mag, man, may, mho, moa, mog, mon, nag, nah, nam, nay, nog, noh, nom, ohm, yah, yam, yom, yon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-h-m-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: hogmanays. | |
+5 letters: pharmacognosy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 68 6F 67 61 6E 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .... --- --. .- -. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101000 01101111 01100111 01100001 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a h o g a n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0068 006F 0067 0061 006E 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767748173678091 |
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