Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. hardwood
12. rosewood (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Hardwood from the species Dalbergia elanoxylon, native to the dry savanna woodlands of Africa and western India. It is lustrous dark purple or plum-colored, dense, hard, even-grained with a fine texture, and possessing good carving properties. It was used in ancient Egypt for furniture, arrowheads, tablets, chests, toys, inlays, and small figurines. It is currently used for clarinets and other woodwind instruments because due to its good resonance qualities. Not a true ebony.