rosewood

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

rosewood
    n 1: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly
         marked grain; used in cabinetwork
    2: any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield
       rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish
       color streaked and variegated with black [syn: {rosewood},
       {rosewood tree}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rosewood \Rose"wood\, n.
   A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and
   variegated with black, obtained from several tropical
   leguminous trees of the genera {Dalbergia} and {Machaerium}.
   The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the
   {Dalbergia nigra}.
   [1913 Webster]

   {African rosewood}, the wood of the leguminous tree
      {Pterocarpus erinaceus}.

   {Jamaica rosewood}, the wood of two West Indian trees
      ({Amyris balsamifera}, and {Linocieria ligustrina}).

   {New South Wales rosewood}, the wood of {Trichilia
      glandulosa}, a tree related to the margosa.
      [1913 Webster]

from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Rosewood, CA
  Zip code(s): 90222