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Etymology

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.

derived from moganwo
borrowed from mogano

Definitions

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The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus…
The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
- In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).
Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees…
(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
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  A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
  - Next day, the fish was 'scrowled' on a gridiron over the fire and eaten with 'mahogany', a powerful mixture of black treacle and gin, a favourite tipple of Cornish fishermen for keeping out the cold!
2. 5
  A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
  - Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
3. 6
  A table made from mahogany wood
  A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
  - 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?
  - Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]
4. Made of mahogany.
5. Having the colour of mahogany
  Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
6. A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.

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Derived

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 · +45 more

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