Definitions for ebonies

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ebonies eb·on·y

Spelling: [eb-uh-nee]

IPA: /ˈɛb ə ni/

Ebonies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in ebonies (beeinos).

Definitions for ebonies

noun

1. a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
2. any tree yielding such wood.
3. any of various similar woods or trees.
4. a deep, lustrous black.

adjective

1. Also, ebon. made of ebony.
2. of a deep, lustrous black.

Origin of ebonies

1590-1600; earlier hebeny; see ebon; -y perhaps after ivory

Examples for ebonies

Soon thereafter she gave birth to a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair as black as ebony.

He was looking at a faded picture in an ebony frame which hung by the side of the bed.

That did not preclude ebony Jones from speaking about her mother.

The sleepers of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railway are nearly all of ebony.

In other words, though carved in ebony, he also was in the image of God.

Afterward, ebony went to the apartment where her mother had made such a valiant stand.

Their panels of ebony were decorated with bronze applications in the centre.

One suit was inlaid with enamel, black as ebony, and the other with red gold.

“I remember saying, ‘Oh my God, Mom, you have to move,’” ebony remembers.

ebony took a place around the corner, close enough to check in on her mother every day without infringing on her independence.