eb·o·ny /ˈɛbəni/
 黑檀樹,烏木(a.)烏木製的,黑檀的
 Eb·on·y n.; pl. Ebonies   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.
 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 Excæcaria glandulosa.
 Eb·on·y, a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
    This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.   --Poe.
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 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]
 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.