dyewood
Noun
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Noun
dyewood
- Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.
- 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:
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