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ID: 300375016
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300375016

 

Record Type: concept
Swietenia (genus) (Meliaceae (family), Sapindales (order), ... Living Organisms (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Genus of evergreen trees from tropical America including at least 3 species, which hybridize easily when grown in proximity; thus the species are poorly defined biologically. The trees have a hard wood that turns reddish brown at maturity, valued as timber. The leaflets of each large leaf are arranged like a feather, but there is no terminal leaflet.
 
Terms:
Swietenia (genus) (preferred,C,U,S,English-P,D,U,N)
Swietenia (genus) (Latin-P,D,U,N)
Swietenia (genus) (Dutch-P,D,U,N)
mahogany (genus) (C,U,LC,C,English,AD,U,N)
mahonie (genus) (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)
swietenia (genus) (C,U,Spanish,UF,U,U)
acajou (genus) (C,U,C,French-P,AD,U,N)
caoba (genus) (C,U,Spanish,D,U,U)
caoba americana (genus) (C,U,Spanish,UF,U,U)
mahogny (genus) (C,U,C,Swedish,AD,U,U)
mogano (genus) (C,U,C,Italian,AD,U,U)
Mahagoni (Holz) (C,U,C,German,AD,U,U)
acaju (C,U,C,Portuguese,AD,U,U)
mogno americano (C,U,Portuguese,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  H.HL

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Agents Facet
Agents Facet
Hierarchy of Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
.... Living Organisms (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of living organisms (entities)
........ living organisms (entities) (G)
Hierarchy of Eukaryota (domain)
............ Eukaryota (domain) (G)
Hierarchy of Plantae (kingdom)
................ Plantae (kingdom) (G)
Hierarchy of Angiospermae (division)
.................... Angiospermae (division) (G)
Hierarchy of Magnoliopsida (class)
........................ Magnoliopsida (class) (G)
Hierarchy of Rosanae (superorder)
............................ Rosanae (superorder) (G)
Hierarchy of Sapindales (order)
................................ Sapindales (order) (G)
Hierarchy of Meliaceae (family)
.................................... Meliaceae (family) (G)
Hierarchy of Swietenia (genus)
........................................ Swietenia (genus) (G)

Related concepts:
source for ....  mahogany (wood)
..................  (hardwood, <wood by composition or origin>, ... Materials (hierarchy name)) [300012221]

Sources and Contributors:
acajou (genus)............  [VP]
.............................  CHIN database (1988-)
.............................  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
acaju............  [VP]
..............  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
caoba (genus)............  [VP]
..........................  Feduchi, Historia del Mueble (1986) 628
caoba americana (genus)............  [VP]
.........................................  Rodríguez Bernis, Diccionario de Mobiliario (2006) 93
Mahagoni (Holz)............  [VP]
.............................  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
mahogany (genus)............  [VP]
.............................  Brady and Clauser, Materials Handbook (1977) 468
.............................  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-)
.............................  Mayer, Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (1981) 621
.............................  Montgomery, American furniture: Federal Period (1966) 37
.............................  Museum Prototype Project, Medium of Objects Frequency Report (1985)
.............................  National Museum of American Art, Media Thesaurus (1980s)
.............................  Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
.............................  RILA, Subject Headings (1975-1990)
mahogny (genus)............  [VP]
.............................  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
mahonie (genus)............  [VP]
.............................  AAT-Ned (1994-) okayed per spreadsheet from AAT-Ned
.............................  New Routledge Dutch Dictionary (2009) 322
mogano (genus)............  [VP]
.............................  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
mogno americano............  [VP]
.............................  MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
Swietenia (genus)............  [VP Preferred]
................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
................................  Elias, Complete Trees of North America (1980)
................................  ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System online (2005-)
................................  NCBI Taxonomy Browser (2008-)
................................  Smithsonian Collections Search Center (2009-)
................................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
swietenia (genus)............  [VP]
................................  Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana (1925) 11:393
................................  Fleming y Honour, Diccionario de Artes Decorativas (1987) 152
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
............  CHIN database (1988-)
............  Wiselius, Houtvademecum (1990)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
.......... MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online: CAMEO (2005-)
.......... Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)

 

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