| 单词 | pernambuco wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPernambuco wood More fully Pernambuco wood. The hard, reddish wood of a tropical American tree, Caesalpinia echinata, of the family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae), formerly much valued as a source of a red dye and now used chiefly for making violin bows; (also) the wood of several other trees of the genus Caesalpinia used as dyewoods. Cf. Brazil n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > brazil trees or wood Brazilc1386 Pernambuco1595 sapan1598 braziletto1656 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs madderOE grain1335 alkanet1343 Brazilc1386 crop-maddera1399 red-scarletc1400 alcanna?a1425 lac?c1425 madder root?c1450 incarnationa1475 jarecork1483 orchil1483 mull1507 orcanet1548 Bristol-red1551 red sanders1553 cochineal1582 safflower1583 chay1588 Pernambuco1595 red sanderswood1598 redwood1634 peach woodc1638 scarlet1653 mesteque1667 bow-dye1676 sylvester1697 corkir1703 gamene1703 orchilla1703 crap1721 saffranon1731 kino1788 Turkey red1789 lizary1791 granilla1812 munjeet1813 rubiate1835 orcein1838 purpurin1839 ruby wood1843 sassafrid1852 aal1853 pink salt1853 magenta1860 fuchsine1865 paeonin1865 safranine1868 corallin1873 marina1874 Magdala red1875 alizarin1878 eosin1879 Turkey red oil1879 roccelline1880 ponceau1885 amarant1888 phloxine1890 hypernic1897 Turkish red1900 Lithol red1930 α. β. a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 23 The true Brasil is called Pernambuca, being the place from whence they come in Brasil.1829 ‘C. Sealsfield’ Tokeah II. 124 The carriage whirled along the levee, through oyster and orange shops; mountains of Pernambuco logs and bricks.1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 280 Cæsalpinieæ... The dye-woods are important, namely, Log-wood (Hæmatoxylon campechianus), Brazil-wood or Pernambuco-wood (Cæsalpinia echinata, brasiliensis, and other species),..&c.1902 G. S. Boulger Wood ii. 271 Peach~wood (Cæsalpinia echinata Lam: Order Leguminosæ). Central and South America. Known also as ‘Lima, Nicaragua or Pernambuco-wood’.1920 A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World 40 Used as a dye-wood..there is nothing that will yield the same result as the Pernambuco or brazil-wood.1943 S. J. Record & R. W. Hess Timbers New World 275/2 The principal foreign demand for the timber at present is..for the manufacture of violin bows and in this trade it is known as Pernambuco.1998 Strad July 727/1 When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 13 In this place was great store of fruite and much fernandobuck. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A red wood called brasill or fernanbucke. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 534 Fernandbuck wood. 1702 ‘T. Snow’ Apiroscopy i. 28 [To stain wood red] take Fernebourge, half a Pound, and Rain Water. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 68 Most in Use is the Brazil-Wood, call'd Fernambuck. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce ii. 219 Brazil wood is imported principally from Pernambuco, and is also known by the name of Fernambuk wood. 1938 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. II. 68/1 Fernambuco or Pernambuco wood is considered to be the richest in colouring. 2001 P. Ball Bright Earth vi. 155 From Central America came..abundant brazilwood and the related species fernambuco and peachwood. < as lemmas |
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