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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various kinds of wood that yield coloring matter used as a dye.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any wood from which dye is extracted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun brazilwood
  • noun Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any wood from which dye is obtained

Etymologies

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dye +‎ wood

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