Xanthoxylum Caribaeum

Xanthoxylum Caribaeum
Satinwood Sat"in*wood`, n. (Bot.) The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree ({Chloroxylon Swietenia}). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash ({Xanthoxylum Carib[ae]um}) growing in Florida and the West Indies. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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