calamander
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Sinhalese [script needed] (kaḷu-madīriya), perhaps from Coromandel ebony (see coromandel), changed by association with Sinhalese කළු (kaḷu, “black”);[1] or perhaps a metathetic variant of coromandel[2] via Dutch kalamanderhout.[3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæləˌmændə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæləˌmændɚ/
- Rhymes: salamander
- Hyphenation: cal‧a‧man‧der
Noun
[edit]calamander (usually uncountable, plural calamanders)
- A wood from India and Sri Lanka, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially Diospyros quaesita, used to make furniture.
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Calamander wood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Diospyros quaesita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Diospyros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Diospyros on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - “calamander wood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “calamander”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “calamander”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “calamander”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ “calamander”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.