2006-09-11 12:27:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I've always thought it was a reddish brown color.
2006-09-11 12:30:31 · answer #1 · answered by JůnəßůĢ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The name mahogany was first used for wood of the tree species Swietenia Mahagoni, sometimes referred to as Spanish or Cuban mahogany, later also for the wood of the closely related Swietenia Macrophylla, sometimes referred to as Honduras mahogany.
This wood is famed for its use in making furniture. Easy to work, stable in use, and displays a beautiful reddish sheen when polished. The name "mahogany" is also widely used for that of the African genus Khaya (closely related to Swietenia), more correctly African mahogany.
Used in the plural, "mahoganies" may refer to the wider group of all the timbers yielded by the three related genera Swietenia, Khaya and Entandrophragma. The timbers of Entandrophragma are traded under their individual names, sometimes with "mahogany" attached: for example "sipo" may sometimes be called "sipo mahogany".
2006-09-11 19:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by Jules G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trade or Common Name: Mahogany, true or genuine mahogany, bigleaf mahogany, Honduras mahogany
Local Name: Caoba
Botanical Name: Swietenia macrophylla
Family: Meliaceae
The Tree: In the natural rainforest, Mahogany is a very large canopy tree, sometimes reaching over 150 feet in height, with trunks sometimes more than 6 feet in diameter above a large basal buttress. It is a generally open-crowned tree, with gray to brownish-red fissured bark.
http://tropicalhardwoods.com/htm/tropical_hardwoods/mahogany.htm
2006-09-11 19:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahogany is a hard wood, from a American tropical tree, it has reddish-brown wood. (definition)
Sometimes used to describe the color of ones hair. Or skin tone. Good Luck, Hope this is helpful to you
2006-09-11 19:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahogany is a type of wood or it can be a shade of brown.
2006-09-11 19:34:24 · answer #5 · answered by Katzeyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahogany is a dark reddish-brown wood that is used to make furniture.
that's the definiation. good luck!! :)
2006-09-11 19:37:46 · answer #6 · answered by sweetholyeiei 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does!! Not dose! Dose, a unit of measurement used when prescribing medicine.
2006-09-13 10:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by jc20155 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I live in the Caribbean (MAHOGANY) is a tree
2006-09-11 19:35:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mister G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mahogany is a a type of wood used in furniture among other this it is also a color reddish-brown of sorts
-mahogony funiturehttp://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/pattyben/?action=view¤t=PICT0808.jpg
2006-09-11 19:40:29 · answer #9 · answered by MAX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a kind of wood-based furniture.
2006-09-11 19:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋