Meaning of dyewood | Babel Free

Definitions

Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.”

“He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.”

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