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fus⋅tic

  [fuhs-tik]
–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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