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Brazilwood
Brazilwood meaning
A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments. | The wood of this tree.
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Example sentences (4)
Both come from the same species of tree (Caesalpinia echinata), but pernambuco, used for higher-quality bows, is the heartwood of the tree and is darker in color than brazilwood (which is sometimes stained to compensate).
Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree.
Student bows may also be made of the less valuable varieties of brazilwood.
Vespucci returned to Spain with stocks of cotton and brazilwood from the island and described houses built into the ocean.