ebony

¹eb·o·ny

noun \ˈe-bə-nē\

plural eb·o·nies

Definition of EBONY

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

Origin of EBONY

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

First Known Use: 1597

Other Seed Plant Terms

aubergine, box, bramble, briar, composite, perpetual, pulse, trefoil