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n. - East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish material; West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily material.

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  • Breathing heavily, he moved around the table to the satinwood chest.
  • Fleur was sitting at the satinwood bureau, with her face buried on her arms.
  • There is a zantewood, or satinwood, but it does not take its name from this island.
  • The legs were light and tapering with inlay of satinwood, and sometimes they were reeded.
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