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fus⋅tic

  [fuhs-tik]
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–noun
1. the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
2. the tree itself.
3. the dye.
4. any of several other dyewoods.
Also called old fustic (for defs. 1–3).

Origin:
1425–75; late ME fustik < MF fustoc < Ar fustuq < Pers pistah; akin to Gk pistákē pistachio tree
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fus·tic   (fŭs'tĭk)   
n.  

  1. A small dioecious tropical American tree (Chlorophora tinctoria) having wood that yields a yellow dyestuff.

  2. The wood of this plant.

  3. A dyestuff obtained from the wood of this plant.


[Middle English fustik, from Old French fustoc, from Arabic fustuq, from Greek pistakē, pistachio; see pistachio.]
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fustic

either of two natural dyes. Old fustic, or yellowwood, is derived from the heartwood of dyer's mulberry, a large, tropical American tree (Chlorophora tinctoria, or Maclura tinctoria) of the mulberry family, Moraceae. The dye produces yellows on wool mordanted (fixed) with chromium salts.

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