king-wood

king·wood

[king-wood]
noun
1.
a Brazilian wood streaked with violet tints, used especially in cabinetwork.
2.
the tree of the genus Dalbergia that yields this wood.

Origin:
1850–55; king + wood1

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kingwood (ˈkɪŋˌwʊd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  the hard fine-grained violet-tinted wood of a Brazilian leguminous tree, Dalbergia cearensis, used in cabinetwork
2.  the tree yielding this wood

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King-wood is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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