brazilwood
Noun
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Noun
brazilwood (uncountable)
- A Brazilian timber tree, Caesalpinia echinata, used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
- (uncountable) The wood of such tree.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:
- He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:
- (Caesalpina echinata) pau-brasil, pernambuco
- French: pernambouc, bois-brésil
- German: Brasilholz
- Italian: pernambuco
- Portuguese: brasil, pau-brasil, pernambuco
- Spanish: palo Brasil, pau-Brasil, pernambuco
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