ebony (n.)
- acacia
- ailanthus
- alder
- allspice
- almond
- apple
- apricot
- ash
- aspen
- avocado
- balsa
- balsam
- banyan
- bass
- basswood
- bay
- bayberry
- beech
- beechwood
- birch
- black
- blackness
- buckeye
- burl
- butternut
- buttonwood
- cacao
- candleberry
- cashew
- cassia
- catalpa
- charcoal
- cherry
- chestnut
- chinquapin
- cinnamon
- citron
- clove
- coal
- coconut
- cork
- crow
- cypress
- dark
- darkness
- dogwood
- elder
- elm
- eucalyptus
- fig
- fir
- frankincense
- grapefruit
- guava
- gum
- gumwood
- hawthorn
- hazel
- hemlock
- henna
- hickory
- holly
- ink
- inkiness
- inky
- ironwood
- jet
- jetty
- juniper
- kumquat
- laburnum
- lancewood
- larch
- laurel
- lemon
- lime
- linden
- litchi
- locust
- logwood
- magnolia
- mahogany
- mango
- mangrove
- maple
- medlar
- melanism
- midnight
- mulberry
- night
- nutmeg
- oak
- olive
- orange
- palm
- papaw
- papaya
- peach
- pear
- pecan
- persimmon
- pine
- pistachio
- pitch
- plane
- plum
- pomegranate
- poplar
- quince
- raven
- redwood
- sable
- sandalwood
- sassafras
- senna
- sequoia
- sloe
- smoke
- smut
- soot
- spruce
- sumac
- sycamore
- tangerine
- tar
- teak
- walnut
- willow
- yew
ebony (adj.)
- ash
- avocado
- bass
- bay
- birch
- black
- caliginous
- charcoal
- cherry
- chestnut
- coal
- coal-black
- dark
- darkling
- ebon
- elder
- hazel
- ink
- ink-black
- inky
- jet
- lime
- night
- obscure
- olive
- orange
- pine
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- plane
- raven
- rayless
- sable
- spruce
- starless
- sunless
- tangerine
- tar
- tarry
- tenebrious
- tenebrous
- unilluminated
- unlighted
- unlit
But our captain counts the image of God—nevertheless his image—cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.
