brazilwood

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English

brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata)

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Etymology

From Brazil +‎ wood.

Noun

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

  1. A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
  2. (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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