hypernicn.
/ˈhʌɪpənɪk//hʌɪˈpəːnɪk/ A wood from one of several tropical American trees, esp. Hæmatoxylon brasiletto, or the red dye extracted from it. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > brazil or braziletto
Brazilc1386
verzine1558
verzino1588
braziletto1656
Jamaica wood1656
Lima-wood1864
hypernic1897
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xlii. 567 Take 10 lbs. hypernic chips... Add the hypernic solution by degrees.
1924 S. J. Record & C. D. Mell Timbers Trop. Amer. 247 The wood [of Haematoxylon brasiletto] from Nicaragua is known..in the trade as Nicaragua wood or ‘hypernic’, the latter term coined to indicate a superlative quality of the wood from that country, but subsequently applied rather indiscriminately to any red dyewood or dyewood extract.
1971 R. J. Adrosko Nat. Dyes & Home Dyeing 26 Besides being called by the other common names for brazil~wood, braziletto was also known as Nicaragua wood and hypernick.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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