different between mahogany vs cedar

English

Etymology

From Spanish mahogani, possibly from a Mayan name.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??h???ni/
• Rhymes: -???ni

Noun

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

1. (uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. [from 17th c.]
2. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes. [from 18th c.]
3. (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).

4. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. [from 19th c.]
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

5. (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. [19th c.]
   • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

     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?

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

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

References

• mahogany at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Hogmanay

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English cedre, from Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kédros).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?si?.d?/
• (US) enPR: s??d?r, IPA^(key): /?si.d?/

Noun

cedar (countable and uncountable, plural cedars)

2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.

   • There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.

4. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
5. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cedr-
• Cedrela
• cedrelaceous
• cedrelate
• cedrine

Translations

Anagrams

• Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cedi, English cede, French céder, Italian cedere, Spanish ceder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?se?dar/

Verb

cedar (present tense cedas, past tense cedis, future tense cedos, imperative cedez, conditional cedus)

1. (transitive) to cede

Conjugation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.dar/, [?ke?d?är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.dar/, [?t????d??r]

Verb

c?dar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of c?d?
2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of c?d?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Noun

c?dar m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. cedar (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• c?drovina