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noun mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
noun tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
originUltimately from Portuguese Amboina, likely through Dutch Amboina, Amboyna, cognate to Old Javanese Ambwan (“Ambon”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0