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brazilwood

noun

Etymology

From Brazil + wood.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. compounded as brazilwood — “Brazil + wood”

Definitions

  1. A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily…

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

  2. The wood of this tree.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA