10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST INDIAN EBONY»
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: Volume 1: North America
... 5713 West Indian buckthorn 6915 West Indian cedar 1488 West Indian cherry
4500, 6294 West-Indian cherry 4502 West-Indian-cherry 2185 West Indian ebony
1025 West Indian elder 7237 West Indian elm 3466 West-Indian elm 3466 West ...
In trade, the wood is known also as brown or West Indian ebony, coco, cocus,
cocas, cocos, cocoa, grandilla, torchwood, and less often as greenheart ebony.
Green ebony is the term now in general use, though greenheart ebony is
perhaps ...
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of ...
... had their genesis in this Atlantic economy. Colonial merchants were not for the
most part scholars, but they became the patrons of higher education. The
wealthiest families had 48 Ebony and Ivy “The Very Name ofa West-Indian”
Ebony and.
Craig Steven Wilder,
2013
COCUS-WOOD OR GREEN EBONY Brya ebenus yields a wood known to the
trade under a variety of names, the most common of which are brown or West
Indian ebony, coco, cocus, granadilla, torchwood, greenheart ebony, and green ...
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Forest History: International Studies on Socio-economic and ...
West Indian ebony or 'gratte-gale' is a shrub from 2 to 2.5 m in height, whose
ramous, often tortuous, stem is slightly bigger than sugar cane. Its hard wood,
black-purple sprinkled with yellow, was much sought after for inlay work. The
ebony ...
Mauro Agnoletti, Steven Anderson,
2000
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Phytochemical Dictionary of the Leguminosae
Brya ebenus (L.) DC. American Ebony; Coccus Wood; Cocos Wood; Cocus
Wood; Espino de Sabana; Green Ebony; Jamaican Ebony; West Indian Ebony
Geographical distribution Asia: India Caribbean Descriptors Shrub, tree;
perennial; not ...
... and a very intoxicating drink can he made from the buds and leaves The
kernels yield a valuable and nutritious oil, and are a great delicacy when roasted.
19. Coccns, or West Indian Ebony (Bryn. ebenus), a native of Jamaica and Cuba.
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The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of ...
This forms parts of the common names of these plants: West Indian arrowroot (
Maranta arundinacea), West- Indian-birch (Bursera simaruba), West-Indian-cedar
(Cedrela odorata), West-Indian- Ebony (Brya ebenus), West Indian gherkin ...
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West Indian Antique Furniture: Of the Lesser Antilles, 1740-1940
... small trees and shrubs. It is native to the West Indies especially Jamaica, Cuba
and Trinidad which supplies a limited quantity of small logs of the highly-prized
wood known to the trade as Cocus Wood or West Indian Ebony. The tree is found
...
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Tipbook Clarinet: The Complete Guide
Other kinds of wood Less common, but sometimes also used for clarinets is West
Indian ebony. This type of wood is also known as Brya ebenus, cocuswood, or
granadilla. Rosewood, a reddish-brown wood that is said to give a lighter, softer ...