BRAZILWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brazilwood mean? 

• BRAZILWOOD (noun)
  The noun BRAZILWOOD has 2 senses:

1. heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods

2. tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry

  Familiarity information: BRAZILWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAZILWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("brazilwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("brazilwood" is a substance of...):

brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood (tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood

Hypernyms ("brazilwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "brazilwood"):

brazilwood (heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods)

Holonyms ("brazilwood" is a member of...):

Caesalpinia; genus Caesalpinia (small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana)