1. noun, adjective (of) a type of wood, usually black and almost as heavy and hard as stone.
2. adjective black as ebony.
ebony
| Noun | 1. |  ebony - a very dark black
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| 2. | ebony - hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree, ebony - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
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| 3. |  ebony - tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
ebony - hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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| Adj. | 1. | ebony - of a very dark black |
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ebony
adjective black, dark, jet, raven, sable, pitch-black, jet-black, inky, swarthy, coal-black He had rich, soft ebony hair. see shades from black to white
b•on•y (ˈɛb ə ni)
b•on•y (ˈɛb ə ni)
n., pl. -on•ies,
adj. n.
n., pl. -on•ies,
adj. n.
1. a hard, heavy, durable, dark wood from tropical trees of the African and Asian genus Diospyros, of the ebony family, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
2. any tree yielding such wood.
3. a deep, lustrous black.
adj.
4. made of ebony.
5. of a deep, lustrous black.
ebony
ebony [ˈɛbənɪ]
n pl -onies
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various tropical and subtropical trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. ebenum of S India, that have hard dark wood: family Ebenaceae See also persimmon
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the wood of such a tree, much used for cabinetwork
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)
a. a black colour, sometimes with a dark olive tinge
b. (as adjective) an ebony skin
[C16 hebeny, from Late Latin ebeninus from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos ebony, of Egyptian origin]
ebony
ebony
noun
1.
a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genusDiospyros, 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.
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One of three covers of the Sept. issue of Ebony magazine (Courtesy of Ebony magazine)
Arresting magazine covers are meant to do two things: sell copies and spark a conversation or debate. Well, Ebony Magazine is getting plenty of the latter. The September issue of what’s considered the “Time magazine of Black America” will have four different covers in honor of Trayvon Martin. One cover features the parents and brother of the unarmed teen shot and killed by George Zimmerman. The other three cover shotsshow prominent African American men with their sons in hoodies. They include filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Boris Kodjoe and Miami Heat basketball star Dwayne Wade (right). They are powerful images that set the tone for a magazine issue devoted to the tragedy in Sanford, Fla., last year and the hurt over the Zimmerman acquittal of second-degree murder last month.
As always, Trayvon “brings out the worst in people.” All the folks over at Breitbart.comhad to do was scribble up a quick item about Miami Heat basketball player Dwayne Wade’s cover with his two sons to get the hate flowing in its comments section. No need for me to repeat the vitriol. A lot of it boils down to Trayvon was a “drug-dealing thug” who deserved to die. Or that blacks won’t address the dysfunction in their own backyard. Given that my own Twitter feed, e-mail and comments were filled with these kinds of comments since I started writing about Zimmerman and Trayvon, I should be used to the callousness by now. That I’m not must be proof that I still possess a bit of humanity.
I first learned about the covers because of Twitter reaction (h/t @ljoywilliams and@ZerlinaMaxwell) to Ebony magazine’s reaction to calls by conservatives for a boycott of the magazine. As if they’d ever heard of the Afro-centric publication before the bold covers went public. “We have so many Tea Party readers and followers,” a tweet from @EbonyMag read. “To lose all zero of them due to our September cover would be devastating.” A terrific response to persistent idiocy.
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