dyewood
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of dyewood
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
“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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noun
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
“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.”
- (countable, uncountable)A tree from which such wood is harvested.
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Etymology
From dye + wood.
Words you can make from dyewood
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