Definition of: mahogany

(mə·hog′ə·nē) noun
1. A large tropical American tree (genus Swietenia), with fine–grained, hard, reddish wood much used for cabinetwork.
2. The wood itself.
3. One of various trees yielding a similar wood, as African mahogany (Khaya ivorensis); also its wood.
4. Acajou.
5. Any of the various shades of brownish–red or reddish–brown of the finished wood.
—adjective
1. Of or pertaining to, or consisting of mahogany.
2. Of a mahogany color. [<obs. Sp. mahogani. prob. <Arawakan]