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词汇 purpleheart
释义 purpleheart
noun
uk /ˈpɜː.pəl.hɑːt/ us /ˈpɝː.pəl.hɑːrt /
[ C or U ]
a rare South or Central American tree with very hard wood:
In place of the purpleheart that he has cut down, he plans to plant pineapple.
The purplehearts are found in Trinidad and Suriname.
We were staying on the edge of a forest of purpleheart trees.
[ U ]
the very hard, purple-brown wood of the purpleheart tree, used for making furniture :
He's working on a coffee table made from purpleheart with ebony and silver inlay.
The benches are made of treated purpleheart wood.
See also
Purple Heart
He claimed that the company had been removing purpleheart logs from the forest illegally.
The purpleheart trees are among this rainforest's most valuable timber.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of wood
American elm
Atlantic white cedar
balk
balsa wood
bark
basswood
black locust
boxwood
cork
elm
knotty
MDF
mulga
oaken
paulownia
piny
pitch pine
ponderosa pine
softwood
three-ply
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