Overview of noun ebony

The noun ebony has 3 senses

• coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black -- (a very dark black)


• ebony -- (hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys)


• ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum -- (tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork)

Overview of adj ebony

The adj ebony has 1 sense

• ebon, ebony -- (of a very dark black)