English-Thai Dictionary

ebony

ADJ ที่ มี สีน้ำตาล ดำ  jet ti-me-se-nam-tan-dam

 

ebony

N ไม้ ดำ แข็ง  ไม้ มะ เกลือ  mai-dam-kang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EBONY

n.[L. ebenus.] A species of hard, heavy and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss; said to be brought from Madagascar. The most usual color is black, red or green. The best is a jet black, free from veins and rind, very heavy, astringent and of an acrid pungent taste. On burning coals it yields an agreeable perfume, and when green it readily takes fire from its abundance of fat. It is wrought into toys, and used for mosaic and inlaid work.

 

EBONY-TREE

n.The Ebenus, a small tree constituting a genus, growing in Crete and other isles of the Archipelago.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EBONY

Eb "on *y, n.; pl. Ebonies. Etym: [F. ébène, L. ebenus, fr. Gr. hobnim,pl. Cf. Ebon. ]

 

Defn: A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

 

Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc. ), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus ), and from the Excæcaria glandulosa.

 

EBONY

EBONY Eb "on *y, a.

 

Defn: Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ebony

eb on y |ˈebənē ˈɛbəni | ▶noun 1 heavy blackish or very dark brown timber from a mainly tropical tree. • a very dark brown or black color: his smile flashed against the ebony of his skin | [ as modifier ] : his ebony hair. 2 a tree of tropical and warm-temperate regions that produces such timber. [Genera Diospyros and Euclea, family Ebenaceae: numerous species, in particular D. ebenum. ] • used in names of trees of other families that produce similar timber, e.g., Jamaican (or American ) ebony. ORIGIN late Middle English: from earlier ebon (via Old French and Latin from Greek ebenos ‘ebony tree ’), perhaps on the pattern of ivory .

 

Oxford Dictionary

ebony

ebony |ˈɛb (ə )ni | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] heavy blackish or very dark brown timber from a mainly tropical tree. • [ mass noun ] a very dark brown or black colour: [ as modifier ] : his ebony hair. 2 a tree of tropical and warm-temperate regions which produces ebony. ●Genera Diospyros and Euclea, family Ebenaceae: numerous species, in particular D. ebenum. • used in names of trees of other families which produce timber similar to ebony, e.g. Jamaican (or American ) ebony. ORIGIN late Middle English: from earlier ebon (via Old French and Latin from Greek ebenos ‘ebony tree ’), perhaps on the pattern of ivory .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ebony

ebony adjective his ebony eyes: black, jet-black, pitch-black, coal-black, sable, inky, sooty, raven, dark.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ebony

ebony adjective he stared at her with his ebony eyes: black, jet-black, pitch-black, coal-black, ink-black, black as night, black as pitch, sable, inky, sooty, raven, dark; literary ebon. ANTONYMS ivory.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ebony

eb on y /éb (ə )ni /名詞 1 U 〘植 〙コクタン 〘高級家具 器具用の木材 〙.2 〖E- 〗エボニー 〘アフリカ系米国人向け雑誌 〙.形容詞 コクタンの ; ｟文 ｠漆黒 （しっこく ）の, 真っ黒い .