fustic
nounUS /ˈfʌstɪk/
Etymology From Middle English fustik, from Middle French fustec, variant of fustet.
1
Usually A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye.
- […]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
2
Usually A Eurasian smoketree (Cotinus coggygria), whose wood produces an orange dye.
3
Usually Wood of these trees.
4
Usually A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.
- Synonyms
- old fustic, fustoc, young fustic, fustet, Venice sumac, Eurasian smoke tree
- Derived terms
- fustin