brazilwood

English

Brazilwood

Etymology

Brazil +‎ wood

Noun

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

1. A Brazilian timber tree, , used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
2. (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
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• Italian: pernambuco
• Macedonian: варзило n (varzilo)
• Old Tupi: ibirapitanga
• 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

Further reading

• brazilwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caesalpina echinata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies