Brazilwood is an English word with synonyms like wood or tree. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Brazilwood in a sentence
Brazilwood meaning
- A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
- The wood of this tree.
Using Brazilwood
- The main meaning on this page is: A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments. | The wood of this tree.
- Useful related words include: wood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood.
Context around Brazilwood
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brazilwood
- In this selection, "brazilwood" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tree stand out and add context to how "brazilwood" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include color than brazilwood which is and cotton and brazilwood from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brazilwood" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brazilwood
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Student bows may also be made of the less valuable varieties of brazilwood. (13 words)
Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree. (15 words)
Vespucci returned to Spain with stocks of cotton and brazilwood from the island and described houses built into the ocean. (20 words)
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). (36 words)
Vespucci returned to Spain with stocks of cotton and brazilwood from the island and described houses built into the ocean. (20 words)
Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree. (15 words)
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.