white mahogany

noun

1

a

: a pale or light-colored mahogany

b

: primavera sense 2

2

a

: an Australian eucalypt (Eucalyptus triantha or E. acmenoides) that yields a pale strong straight-grained wood used especially for railway ties and posts

b

: the wood of this tree

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined at sense 2a

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