brazilwood

English

Brazilwood

Etymology

Brazil +‎ wood

Noun

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

A Brazilian timber tree, Caesalpinia echinata, used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
(uncountable) The wood of such tree.

Synonyms

(Caesalpina echinata): pau-brasil, pernambuco

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
Portuguese: brasil (pt) m, pau-brasil (pt) m, pernambuco m
Romanian: fernambuc m, pernambuc m
Spanish: palo Brasil m, pau-Brasil m, pernambuco m

Further reading

brazilwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Caesalpina echinata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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