[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ebony \eb"ony\, a.
   made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony
   countenance.
   1913 webster

         this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
                                                  --poe.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ebony \eb"ony\, n.; pl. ebonies. f. 'eb`ene, l. ebenus,
   fr. gr. ?; prob. of semitic origin; cf. heb. hobnimacm, pl.
   cf. ebon.
   a hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine
   polish or gloss. the usual color is black, but it also occurs
   red or green.
   1913 webster

   note: the finest black ebony is the heartwood of diospyros
         reticulata, of the mauritius. other species of the
         same genus d. ebenum, melanoxylon, etc., furnish
         the ebony of the east indies and ceylon. the west
         indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree brya
         ebenus, and from the excaecaria glandulosa.
         1913 webster
see also:
ebonies ebon diospyros reticulata d. ebenum melanoxylon brya ebenus 
excaecaria glandulosa 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ebony
     adj : very dark black syn: ebon
     n 1: a very dark black syn: coal black, jet black, pitch
          black, sable, soot black
     2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in
        cabinetwork and for piano keys
     3: tropical tree of southern asia having hard dark-colored
        heartwood used in cabinetwork syn: diospyros ebenum
see also:
ebon coal black jet black pitch black sable soot black 
diospyros ebenum 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

191 moby thesaurus words for "ebony":
   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

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

ebony
   a black, hard wood, brought by the merchants from india to tyre
   ezek. 27:15. it is the heart-wood, brought by diospyros
   ebenus, which grows in ceylon and southern india.
   

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

ebony, va
  zip codes: 23845

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