| 单词 | sapan wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmassapan wood A dye-wood yielding a red dye, obtained from trees belonging to the genus Cæsalpinia, indigenous to tropical Asia and the Indian Archipelago, esp. C. Sappan. Now only sapan wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods red sandalwood?c1510 redwooda1533 whitewood1562 red sanderswood1598 sapan wood1598 peach woodc1638 Campeachy wood1652 coral-wood1693 Nicaragua wood1696 cam-wood1699 Guinea wood1722 Nicaragua1756 barwood1788 ruby wood1843 sap pan1874 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 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxii. 36/1 The wood Sapon, whereof also much is brought from Sian, it is like Brasill to die withall. 1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 209 Ofring to deliver me money for all our sappon which was com in this junk. 1626 Methold in S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) ix. xv. 1004 A wood to die withall called Sapan wood, the same we heere call Brasill. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo ii. 197 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors A sort of wood called Sappan. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2269/2 210 100 l. [i.e. 210 quintals] of Siams Sapan Wood. 1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 App. 7 For which they give in return sugar, ripe cloves, sappan wood, ivory. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 529 The roots of the same tree [sc. Cæsalpinia Sappan], under the names of Yellow-wood and Sappan-root, are..employed for dyeing yellow. 1881 Daily News 22 Jan. 5/8 Great store of Sapanwood from the Indies is also aboard. < as lemmas |
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