amboyna

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
  Synonym: Andaman redwood

Meaning #2: tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
  Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus

Amboyna can refer to:

• an archaic name for Ambon Island, part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia
• the burl of Pterocarpus trees, originally exported from Ambon, but now from many locations in SEAsia
• a tragedy by John Dryden

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