dyewood

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any wood (including bark) from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.

   • Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.
   • 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.
2. 2

   A tree from which such wood is harvested.

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