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Abraum is a red ochre dye used to stain mahogany.
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Bay Mahogany is a variety of mahogany exported from Honduras. It is softer and less finely marked than the variety known as Spanish mahogany, but is the largest and most abundant kind.
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Gaboon is the dark mahogany-like wood, but lighter in colour, from a western and central African burseraceous tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used in plywood, for furniture, and as a veneer.
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Mahogany is a light hard wood from trees of the family Meliaceae, that was first introduced to Britain as ballast cargo from Cuba and Central America and became popular for making furniture during the 18th century. Mahogany is valuable as it shrinks very little when it dries, and suffers very little from warping or twisting.
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Cedrelaceae is the mahogany family, a natural order of dicotyledonous plants, nearly allied to, if really separate from, the Meliaceae. They are trees with alternate pinnate leaves and a woody capsular fruit. Different species yield mahogany, satin-wood, yellow-wood, etc.
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The Duroc is an eastern American breed of pig. They have considerable variation in colour. An acceptable colour may range from a very light golden, almost yellow colour, to a very dark red that approaches mahogany. The red is a very practical colour that suits pork producers, and since it is a solid colour there is not concern about fancy points of proper markings.
Durocs have a medium length and slight dish of the face. The ears should be drooping and should not be held erect.
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Khaya is a genus of tall trees belonging to the family Meliaceae, and closely allied to the Mahogany tree.
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Alkanet is a dyeing drug, the bark of the root of the Anchusa or Alkanna tinctoria, a plant of the order Boraginaceae, with downy and spear-shaped leaves, and clusters of small purple or reddish flowers. The plant is sometimes cultivated in Britain, but most of the alkanet of commerce was imported from the Levant or from southern France. It imparts a fine deep-red colour to all unctuous substances and was used for colouring oils, plasters, lip-salve, confections, etc and also in compositions for rubbing and giving colour to mahogany furniture, and to colour spurious port-wine.
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A cistern barometer was a common 19th century form of barometer consisting essentially of a straight glass tube about thirty-three inches long, filled with mercury, and dipping into a cistern of the same metal. The tube was affixed to a mahogany stand, on the upper part of which was a graduated scale to mark the height in inches at which the mercury stands.
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Mahogany is a variety of apple.
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