Main Entry: ¹eb·o·ny

Pronunciation: \ˈe-bə-nē\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural eb·o·nies

Etymology: probably from Late Latin hebeninus of ebony, from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos ebony, from Egyptian hbnj

Date: 1597

1 : a hard heavy blackish wood yielded by various tropical chiefly southeast Asian trees (genus Diospyros of the family Ebenaceae, the ebony family)
2 a : a tree yielding ebony b : any of several trees yielding wood like ebony