Documenting the latest black news across america from social justice, beauty, culture, and more. There is a greater shine to it and it often has more depth than a black piece of wood. Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree
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A few diospyros species, such as macassar and mun ebony, are dense enough to sink in water.
A hard heavy blackish wood yielded by various tropical chiefly southeast asian trees (genus diospyros of the family ebenaceae, the ebony family)
For making furniture (definition of ebony from the cambridge academic content dictionary © cambridge university press) Ebony as a color is very closely related to black but usually has a more mahogany or reddish undertone
