/seuh pee"lee/ , n.
1. Also called aboudikro . the mahoganylike wood of any of several African trees of the genus Entandrophragma, used for making furniture.
2. a tree, esp. Entandrophragma cylindricum, of the mahogany family, yielding this wood. Also called sapele mahogany .
[ 1900-05; after Sapele, a port on the Benin River in S Nigeria ]