n.
Pronunciation: ' e-b ə -n ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -nies
Etymology: probably from Late Latin hebeninus of ebony, from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos ebony, from Egyptian hbnj
Date: 1597
1 : a hard heavy blackish wood yielded by various tropical chiefly southeast Asian trees (genus Diospyros of the family Ebenaceae, the ebony family)
2 a : a tree yielding ebony b : any of several trees yielding wood like ebony