amboyna
am·boyna
noun
1.
mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
Origin
Ultimately from Portuguese Amboina, likely through Dutch Amboina, Amboyna, cognate to Old Javanese Ambwan (“Ambon”).
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