plural ebonies
Definition of ebony
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: a hard heavy blackish wood yielded by various tropical chiefly southeast Asian trees (genus Diospyros of the family Ebenaceae, the ebony family)
2a
: a tree yielding ebony
b
: any of several trees yielding wood like ebony
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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The first known use of ebony was in 1597
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