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sappanwood

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English

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sappanwood from Buton Island, Indonesia

Etymology

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From sappan +‎ wood.

Noun

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sappanwood (uncountable)

  1. The wood of Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a flowering timber tree also yielding meducine and red dye, in the legume family Fabaceae.
    • 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:
      The dye I'm talking about is quite a different thing from indigo or sappanwood [translating verzino]; it's a dye that makes the color of myrtle appear like flesh to people!

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