calamander
English


bookmatched veneer
Noun
calamander (usually uncountable, plural calamanders)
- A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially the Diospyros quaesita.
Synonyms
- coromandel wood, coromandel
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calamander in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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