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ebony

noun
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  1. the hard black wood of various tropical trees乌木；黑檀
    • an ebony carving一件乌木雕刻
    Word Originlate Middle English: from earlier ebon (via Old French and Latin from Greek ebenos ‘ebony tree’), perhaps on the pattern of ivory.

ebony

adjective
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  1. black in colour乌黑的
    • ebony skin黝黑的皮肤
    Topics Colours and Shapesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryEbony is used with these nouns:
    • skin
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from earlier ebon (via Old French and Latin from Greek ebenos ‘ebony tree’), perhaps on the pattern of ivory.

Ebony

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  1. a US magazine of general interest with many photographs, which is mostly for and about African Americans and is published once a month. It was first published in Chicago in 1945 by John H. Johnson.