Swietenia

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Swie`te´ni`a

(Bot.) A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The Bada Forest Paradise in Pingtung Country, is situated in a beautiful mahogany forest and offers a range of forest-themed activities and rides.

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Other impressive places we visited during our trip included the Bamboo Hanging Bridge at Sevilla, the Bilar Man-made Mahogany Forest and the Butterfly Garden at Simply Butterflies.

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The tragic incident occurred on Wednesday when the cadets were trekking through a slippery rocky path in Mahogany Forest in Malayattoor beside the river.

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The accident occurred at Malayattoor village in Ernakulam district while the cadets were trekking through a rocky path in Mahogany Forest beside the river.

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"There used to be huge mahogany forests but the trees were cut down for roads for industry and not to meet the needs of the population.

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"Sales": Miguel might, if he speaks English, call the colors/of ukuleles stretching their necks from yards/of canvas duffel yoked across his shoulders,/auroral azul, cherry pop, or mojito green,/under this Pac heights sky where the awful rich/snap their heels past shop windows, past goatskin bags,/fibristic sheets of celadon paper from Zhejiang,/FIAT cremini, and Cinco de Mayo gelato./Smiling past them, he passes with his happy load,/a display model whole and nude in his hand, on sale to no one, uplifted like a Stratocaster/sacramental from mahogany forests in Paraguay.

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President Aristide's government says the debt meant that public schools had to be closed for decades, rich mahogany forests were felled down to help raise the money to pay France.

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The accusation that while he was defending forests at countless fund-raisers around the world he was simultaneously selling off A-Ukre's mahogany forests for personal gain is flatly wrong.

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Even a dam of moderate dimensions would flood fifteen square kilometers of the Usumacinta basin and its mahogany forests; it would also wreak havoc on the river's fish and crocodile populations and wipe out or displace the animals that have concentrated along its banks.