mahogany

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /məˈhɒɡəni/    美 /məˈhɑɡəni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. uncountable
    — A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…].
  2. Any of the trees from which such wood comes. countable
  3. (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia. countable
  4. A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. countable,regional,uncountable
    — William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).
  5. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. countable,uncountable
    — Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
  6. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. colloquial,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

词形变化

mahoganies plural mahoganey alternative mahoganee alternative mahogeney alternative mahogeny alternative mohogeny alternative mohogeney alternative mahagony alternative mahagoney alternative more mahogany comparative most mahogany superlative mahoganey alternative mahoganee alternative mahogeney alternative mahogeny alternative mohogeny alternative mohogeney alternative mahagony alternative mahagoney alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
African mahogany African scented mahogany American mahogany Australian mahogany bastard mahogany below the mahogany birch-leaf mahogany birch leaf mahogany birchleaf mahogany black mahogany blue mahogany Brazilian mahogany brown mahogany Burma mahogany cedar mahogany cherry mahogany Colombian mahogany Cuban mahogany desert mahogany Dominican mahogany dry zone mahogany Florida mahogany forest mahogany gaboon mahogany Gambia mahogany ground mahogany Hawaiian mahogany Honduras mahogany Honduran mahogany horseflesh mahogany Indian mahogany Kilimanjaro mahogany Madeira mahogany mahoganize mahogany acid mahogany bean mahogany beebalm mahogany birch mahogany browning mahogany clam mahogany flat mahogany gaspipe mahogany glider mahogany gum mahogany Japanese iris mahogany lily mahogany lung mahogany peony mahogany pine mahogany quahog mahogany rot mahogany row mahogany snapper mahogany soap mahogany Spitfire mahogany tree frog mahoganyware monarda mahogany mountain mahogany Natal mahogany Pacific Coast mahogany Philipine red mahogany Philippine mahogany pink mahogany pod mahogany put one's legs under someone's mahogany red mahogany Rhodesian mahogany rose mahogany rusty mahogany Santos mahogany sapele mahogany scented mahogany Senegal mahogany sipo mahogany small-leaved mahogany southern mahogany Spanish mahogany swamp mahogany Tabasco mahogany true mahogany under the mahogany West Indian mahogany white mahogany yellow mahogany

词源

词源 1
A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words.
alternative etymologies
Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
词源 2
A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words.
alternative etymologies
Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
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