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Definition of Amboyna

1. Noun. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.

2. Noun. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.

Definition of Amboyna

1. the mottled wood of an Indonesian tree [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amboyna

amblyoscope amblypoda Amblyrhynchus Amblyrhynchus cristatus ambo ambo- amboceptor amboceptor unit amboina amboinas

amboina pine ambomalleal ambones ambos ambos amboyna (current term) amboynas Amboyna button amboyna pine amboyna wood

ambreate ambreic ambrein ambries ambrite Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti ambroid ambroids Ambrose Ambrose Bierce

Literary usage of Amboyna

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1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Dutch late proceedings at amboyna, in cruell torturing and executing of divers English-men : with other their like Acts to the Natives in Banda ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Dutch late proceedings at amboyna, in cruell torturing and executing of divers English-men : with other their like Acts to the Natives in Banda ..."

3. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1886)
"The western inlet is several miles long and forms a fine harbour, on the southern side of which is situated the town of amboyna. ..."

4. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1883)
"The castle of amboyna, the main seat of the clove trade, was guarded by the Dutch with peculiar jealousy. The English factory was only permitted to ..."

5. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1818)
"The unhappy commotions in amboyna have occasioned much bloodshed. ... Mr. Kam's zealous labours have not been confined to the island of amboyna. ..."

6. Universal History Americanised, Or, An Historical View of the World from the by David Ramsay (1819)
"amboyna. amboyna is an island of moderate size, beautiful in its appearance, ... The town of amboyna is the second in rank of their East-India settlements, ..."

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