sappanwood

or sa·pan·wood

[ suh-pan-wood ]

noun
  1. a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.

  2. the tree itself.

Origin of sappanwood

1
sappan-<Malay səpang, sapang (spelling sepang) the name of the tree + wood1

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British Dictionary definitions for sappanwood

sappanwood

sapanwood

/ (ˈsæpənˌwʊd) /


noun
  1. a small leguminous tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of S Asia producing wood that yields a red dye

  2. the wood of this tree

Origin of sappanwood

1
C16: sapan, via Dutch from Malay sapang

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