Made of or resembling ebony; dark and smooth like ebony wood.
From Latin ebeneus, derived from ebanus (ebony), which ultimately traces to Greek ebenos. The suffix -eous means 'made of' or 'having the quality of' and appears in many wood-related terms.
The word ebeneous captures how deeply ebony wood impressed ancient peoples—they didn't just use the word for the wood itself, but created adjectives to describe anything that had ebony's prized qualities of darkness and polish.
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