fustic

English

Alternative forms

• fustick (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fustik, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fustoc, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic, فُسْتُق (fustuq, “pistachio”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian فستق (fostoq, “pistachio”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌstɪk/
• Rhymes: -ʌstɪk

Noun

fustic (usually uncountable, plural fustics)

1. A tropical American tree, , whose wood produces a yellow dye.
2. A European tree, Eurasian smoketree, , whose wood produces an orange dye.
3. The wood of these trees.
4. A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.

Quotations

• 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  ...nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.

Synonyms

• (American tree): old fustic, fustoc
• (European tree): young fustic, fustet, Venice sumac, Eurasian smoke tree

Translations

Cotinus coggygria

• German: Perückenstrauch (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: θάψος f (thápsos)

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• Hungarian: cserszömörce (hu), sárga cserszömörce

See also

• Maclura tinctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maclura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eurasian smoketree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cotinus coggygria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Maclura tinctoria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies