satinwood

plural satinwoods

1. Woody trees in family Rutaceae
   1. countableuncountableChloroxylon swietenia (Ceylon or East Indian satinwood)
   2. countableuncountableZanthoxylum flavum (Jamaican satinwood or West Indian satinwood).
   3. countableuncountableChloroxylon faho (Madagascar satinwood)
   4. countableuncountableMurraya paniculata, from southeast Asia and Australia
   5. countableuncountableNematolepis squamea, from Australia
2. countableuncountableWood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia or Zanthoxylum flavum.

   On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion

   1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray