brazilwood

brazilwood

English

brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata)

Alternative forms

• brasilwood

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 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.

Hypernyms

• (the tree): dyewood
• (the wood): dyewood

Translations

timber tree

Finnish: brasilpuu French: pernambouc (fr) m, bois-brésil German: Brasilholz n Hawaiian: ʻipilapikana Hebrew: אַלְמוֹג‎ (he) m (almog) Irish: crann brasaíladhmaid m Italian: pernambuco Macedonian: варзило n (varzilo) Old Tupi: ibirapitanga Polish: fernambuk (pl) m Portuguese: brasil (pt) m, pau-brasil (pt) m, pernambuco (pt) m Romanian: fernambuc m, pernambuc m Spanish: palo Brasil m, pau-Brasil m, pernambuco m

References

• brazilwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caesalpinia echinata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caesalpinia echinata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons