(n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are training with Hasadin, a team of elite rangers formed in June 2015, whose mission is to stop the Siamese rosewood tree from being driven to extinction by poachers.
(2) Seven forest rangers died in 2015 in relation to violent Siamese rosewood crime, according to the Freeland Foundation , an organisation based in Bangkok working to improve ranger training in Thailand.
(3) Although rosewood is classified as an endangered species by the International Trade Convention, trade in that wood has risen dramatically, triggered by demand from well-off Chinese households for reproductions of Qing and Ming dynasty furniture.
(4) In September last year, 23 Cambodian would-be loggers fled their traffickers upon discovery that Siamese rosewood was their target, and handed themselves over to the Thai police, according to the Cambodia Daily .
(5) A recent global wildlife summit also introduced new protection for pangolins , the world’s most trafficked mammals, and rosewoods , the most trafficked wild product of all.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bed made from Siamese rosewood reportedly sold for US$1m in Shanghai in 2011.
(7) They sit nightly at the tables, flicking selfies at each other on digital currents, air kissing one another's bottle-bronzed cheeks, their Botoxed eyebrows feigning constant surprise, while picking irritably at platters of exquisitely carved Jamon Iberico, or Peking duck with skin like lacquered rosewood, or bits of sashimi cut just so.
(8) The lucrative trade saw $1.2bn worth of Siamese rosewood imported to China between 2000 and 2014, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
(9) Occupational asthma due to exposure to exotic wood dust and to rosewood (Dalbergia family) has been reported earlier.
(10) Conservationists have warned that with rates of illegal logging increasing by 850% in recent years, Thailand’s Siamese rosewood trees could be extinct within a decade.
(11) Delegates to the Cites meeting are expected to strengthen protection for multiple plant species, including Madagascan ebony and rosewood.
(12) The last big rosewood trees are in the deep forest, so the smugglers are moving deeper and deeper into Thailand ,” says Khajornsak Anantuk, a sergeant major with the Ta Phraya border police, who is helping to train the rangers.
(13) EIA reported a bed made from Siamese rosewood being sold for US$1m in Shanghai in 2011.
(14) Rosewood logs from trees likely several hundred years old.
(15) The cache belongs to a set of mysterious microfilm images, known as the Rosenholz (Rosewood) records, that contain 280,000 files giving basic information on employees of the foreign intelligence arm of the former GDR.
(16) In the war against rosewood poaching, rangers train in self defence, patrol, conducting raids, making arrests, weapons and explosives identification.
(17) Siamese rosewood was listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in 2013 in an attempt to curb the decimation of south-east Asia’s remaining stocks.
(18) It is now sourced in Madagascar , Burma, Thailand , Vietnam and Belize , and rosewood imports to China rose from 66,000 cubic metres in 2005 to 565,000 cubic metres in 2011.
(19) The listing should have prohibited the international trade in logs, sawn timber and veneers, but an annotation allowing for the legal trade in “semi-finished” products of Siamese rosewood has provided a catastrophic loophole.
(20) Pao ferro (Machaerium scleroxylum), used as a rosewood substitute, is a strong sensitizer capable of causing acute outbreaks of allergic and irritant dermatitis in workers not previously exposed to it.
(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
(n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
(4) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(5) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(6) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(7) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(8) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(9) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(11) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(12) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
(13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(14) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(15) The paper has expanded its distribution to stations including St John's Wood and Putney.
(16) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
(17) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(18) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
(19) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(20) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.