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, 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.

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: ybyrapytanga
• 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

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