brazilwood
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[edit]brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)
- A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 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.
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[edit]timber tree
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References
[edit]- paubrasilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Caesalpinia echinata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Caesalpinia echinata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons