dyewood

plural dyewoods · alternative dye-wood

1. countableuncountableAny wood (including bark) from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.

   Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.

   1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336

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   He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.

   2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198

2. countableuncountableA tree from which such wood is harvested.