(uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. / (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.

Made of mahogany. / Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

plural of mahogany

Swietenia mahagoni (West Indies mahogany) / Swietenia spp. / Any tree of the family Meliaceae that produces similar wood.

(organic chemistry) Any salt of a mahogany acid, typically used as a surfactant

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of sulfonic acids obtained by the action of sulfuric acid on petroleum fractions

Toona ciliata, native from southern Asia to Australia; also known as toon, Australian redcedar, or Indian cedar

(US) Any of several species of tree whose wood resemble mahogany (Swietenia spp.) in some ways, such as tanguile (Dipterocarpoideae spp.), red lauan (Shorea negrosensis), white lauan (Parashorea macrophylla), tiaong (Shorea teysmanniana), almon (Shorea spp., esp. Shorea eximia), mayapis (Dipterocarpoideae spp.), bagtikan (Dipterocarpoideae spp., esp. Parashorea malaanon and Parashorea warburgii).

(pathology) Synonym of woodworker's lung

A tree (Trichilia emetica) found in southern and tropical Africa.