sappanwood
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sappanwood (uncountable)
- The wood of Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a flowering timber tree also yielding meducine and red dye, in the legume family Fabaceae.
- 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:
- The dye I'm talking about is quite a different thing from indigo or sappanwood [translating verzino]; it's a dye that makes the color of myrtle appear like flesh to people!
References[edit]
- sappanwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia