Noun

(countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.

(uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}

A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.

A table made from mahogany wood.

* 1842 , Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany ?

Noun

The fragrant wood of , a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.

Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.

The wood of a South American tree, , in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.