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sap⋅pan⋅wood

  [suh-pan-wood]
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–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.
Also, sapanwood.

Origin:
sappan- < Malay səpang, sapang (sp. sepang) the name of the tree + wood 1
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sap·pan·wood   (sə-pān'wŏŏd', sāp'ān-, -ən-)   
n.  

  1. A tree (Caesalpina sappan) of tropical Asia, having wood that yields a red dye.

  2. The wood of this tree.


[Malay sapang + wood1.]
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