Definition & Meaning | English word COCOBOLO
COCOBOLO
Definitions of COCOBOLO
- An oily tropical hardwood from Central America.
- (historical) An old South American coin.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using COCOBOLO in a Sentence
- Cocobolo heartwood contains oil, which lends a strong, unmistakable floral odor even to well seasoned wood and occasionally stains the hands with prolonged exposure.
- Fifes are made primarily of wood, such as blackwood, grenadilla, rosewood, mopane, pink ivory, cocobolo, boxwood, maple, or persimmon.
- Most Alembic basses and guitars are constructed around a laminated neck that runs through the body of the instrument, using various combinations of often exotic woods such as Zebrawood or Cocobolo.
- The woods of some other species in the genus Dalbergia are notable—even famous—woods in their own right: African blackwood, cocobolo, kingwood, and Brazilian tulipwood.
- Some tropical woods, such as rosewood (Dalbergia nigra), cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) and African padauk (Pterocarpus soyauxii), contain extractives such as quinones, which retard the curing of unsaturated polyester and UV-cured acrylate coatings, and so other finishing systems should be used with these species.
- GSR models include the F-20 (figured Cocbolo), F-30R (master-grade Rosewood), F-40 (figured Cocobolo), F-50 (figured Koa), and D-50 (figured Cocobolo), and Guild's only electric guitar to be produced since 2003, the GSR Starfire VI (only 20 produced).
- There are many other woods with the characteristics to make excellent guitars and are excellent alternatives: cocobolo, maple, bubinga (African rosewood), African blackwood, Camatillo rosewood, Spanish cypress (used exclusively for flamenco guitars), granadillo, ebony, satinwood, ziricote, among others, are excellent choices for backs and sides.
- The hardwood plantation (110 acres) contains African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), blue mahoe (Hibiscus elatus), Caribbean pitch pine (Pinus oocarpa), cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa), Indian blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), Indian rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo), iroko (Chlorophora excelsa), lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale), West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), Moreton Bay chestnut (Castanospermum australe), narra (Pterocarpus indicus), palu (Manilkara hexandra), pheasant wood (Andira inermis), Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleyana), teak (Tectona grandis), West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata), and zebra wood (Astronium graveolens).
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