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eb⋅on

  [eb-uhn]
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–adjective
ebony (def. 6).
Origin:
1350–1400; ME eban, ebyn ebony < AF eban(ne), OF eban, ebaine < ML ebanus, for L (h)ebenus < Gk ébenos, of Sem. orig.

eb⋅on⋅y

  [eb-uh-nee] noun, plural -on⋅ies, adjective
–noun
1. a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
2. any tree yielding such wood.
3. any of various similar woods or trees.
4. a deep, lustrous black.
–adjective
5. Also, ebon. made of ebony.
6. of a deep, lustrous black.
Origin:
1590–1600; earlier hebeny; see ebon; -y perh. after ivory
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eb·on   (ěb'ən)   
adj.  

  1. Made of ebony.

  2. Black in color.

n.  Ebony.

[Middle English eban, ebony wood, from Old French, from Latin hebenus, ebenus, ebony tree, from Greek ebenos; see ebony.]
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Word Origin & History

ebony 
1597, from hebenyf (1384), M.E. misreading L. hebenius "of ebony," from Gk. ebenios, from ebenos "ebony," probably from Egyp. hbnj or another Sem. source. Fig. use to suggest intense blackness is from 1623.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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