dyewood
nounEtymology From dye + wood.
1
Any wood (including bark) from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.
- Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336:
- 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.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:
2
A tree from which such wood is harvested.