Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /məˈhɒɡəni/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
  3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
  4. A table made from mahogany wood.

Adjektiv

  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

Exempel

  • A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
  • 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?

Böjningsformer

Pluralmahoganies
Komparativmore mahogany
Superlativmost mahogany