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Its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
Answer for the clue "Its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry ", 10 letters:
brazilwood
Alternative clues for the word brazilwood
Word definitions for brazilwood in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brazil wood \Bra*zil" wood`\, Brazilwood \Bra*zil"wood`\(br[.a]*z[i^]l" w[oo^]d`). [OE. brasil, LL. brasile (cf. Pg. & Sp. brasil, Pr. bresil, Pr. bresil); perh. from Sp. or Pg. brasa a live coal (cf. Braze , Brasier ); or Ar. vars plant for dyeing red ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en usually uncountable) A Brazilian timber tree, (taxlink Caesalpinia echinata species noshow=1), used primarily to make bows for string instruments. 2 (label en uncountable) The wood of such tree.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry [syn: peachwood , peach-wood , pernambuco wood , Caesalpinia echinata ]
Usage examples of brazilwood.
The most incorrigible of these men were given the task of rasping brazilwood, sawing it down to extract the reddish dye.
His hands and arms and much of his face were stained red from sawing at brazilwood, so that he looked more like a murderer than a penitent in a house of correction.
The dense, variegated forest was rich in ebony, rosewood, brazilwood, and mahogany trees.
It took the balsams, brazilwood, and scented ointments to the mirror, as though only in the looking glass could it tell their color, but when putting on the whitener it turned its face away from the mirror, as though afraid of injury.
Explorers were so aware of dyestuffs as trade goods that the country Brazil was named after the abundance of brazilwood found there.
The red produced by brazilwood, for example, is fugitive, as is the lavender that comes from logwood.