Толковый словарь английского языка - ebony
Ebony
ebony
I. noun (plural -nies) Etymology: probably from Late Latin hebeninus of ~, from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos ~, from Egyptian hbnj Date: 1597 a hard heavy blackish wood yielded by various tropical chiefly southeast Asian trees (genus Diospyros of the family Ebenaceae, the ~ family), 2. a tree yielding ~, any of several trees yielding wood like ~, II. adjective Date: 1597 made of or resembling ~, black , dark
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a heavy hard dark wood used for furniture. 2 any of various trees of the genus Diospyros producing this. --adj. 1 made of ebony. 2 black like ebony. Etymology: earlier hebeny f. (h)eben(e) = ebon, perh. after ivory ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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