Ebony

Noun

 * 1) A hard, heavy, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
 * 2) A tree that yields such wood.
 * 3) A deep, dark black colour.

Adjective

 * 1) Made of ebony wood.
 * 2) A deep, dark black colour.
 * 3) Dark-skinned; black.
 * 4) * 1864, George Adams Fisher, The Yankee conscript: or, Eighteen months in Dixie
 * He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
 * 1) * 1931, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, The life of Robert Burns
 * No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
 * 1) * 2004, "Alyssa", Ebony Girls Need Attention (on newsgroup alt.sex.escorts)
 * Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.
 * Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.

Thesaurus
acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, atramentous, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beamless, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black race, blackness, buckeye, burl, butternut, buttonwood, cacao, caliginous, candleberry, cashew, cassia, catalpa, charcoal, cherry, chestnut, chinquapin, cinnamon, citron, clove, coal, coal-black, coaly, coconut, cork, cork oak, crow, cypress, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darkness, darksome, deep black, dogwood, ebon, eclipsed, elder, elm, eucalyptus, fig, fir, frankincense, grapefruit, guava, gum, gumwood, hawthorn, hazel, hemlock, henna, hickory, holly, hop tree, horse chestnut, ink, ink-black, inkiness, inky, ironwood, jet, jetty, juniper, kumquat, laburnum, lancewood, larch, laurel, lemon, lime, linden, litchi, litchi nut, locust, logwood, magnolia, mahogany, mango, mangrove, maple, medlar, melanism, midnight, mountain ash, mulberry, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, nutmeg, oak, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, olive, orange, palm, papaw, papaya, peach, pear, pecan, persimmon, pine, pistachio, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plane, plum, pomegranate, poplar, quince, raffia palm, rain tree, raven, raven-black, rayless, redwood, sable, sandalwood, sassafras, senna, sequoia, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spruce, starless, sumac, sunless, sycamore, tangerine, tar, tar-black, tarry, teak, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tulip tree, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, walnut, willow, witch hazel, yew

Etymology
Earlier hebeny, from ebenif:, hebenyf: (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus:), from  ebenius:, from  hebenus:, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος:, from  𓍁𓈖𓏭𓆱:.

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: eben, banús
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ébène, bois d'ébène
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: コクタン材 (kokutanzai)
 * Latin: hebaneus
 * Macedonian: абонос
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: heban
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: чёрное дерево (čórnoje d'ér'evo), эбеновое дерево (eb'énovoje d'ér'evo)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: abunusi
 * Swedish: ebenholts, ebenholtsträ
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: eben, banús
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: コクタン (kokutan)
 * Macedonian: абонос
 * Polish: heban
 * Russian: чёрное дерево (čórnoje d'ér'evo), эбеновое дерево (eb'énovoje d'ér'evo)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mpingo
 * Swedish: ebenholts, ebenholtsträd
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan: eben, banús
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: ében, ébenfekete
 * Italian:
 * Polish: hebanowy
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: rangi ya abunusi
 * Swedish: ebenholts

Adjective

 * Finnish:
 * French: d'ébène
 * German: aus Ebenholz
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: абоносов


 * Polish: hebanowy
 * Russian: эбеновый
 * Spanish: de ébano
 * Swahili: -a abunusi
 * Turkish:


 * German:
 * Greek: κατάμαυρος


 * Polish: hebanowy
 * Russian:
 * Swahili: -a rangi ya abunusi
 * Swedish: ebenholtssvart

Derived terms

 * Ebonics
 * Jamaican ebony
 * West Indian ebony

Related terms

 * ebon
 * ebonise
 * ebonite

Anagrams

 * boney