dyewood

English

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Etymology

From dye +‎ wood.

Noun

dyewood (countable and uncountable, plural dyewoods)

  1. Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.
    • 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336:
      Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.
    • 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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