pernambuco wood

What does pernambuco wood mean?

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

What is another word for pernambuco wood?

Close synonyms include brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, Caesalpinia echinata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pernambuco wood a common word?

pernambuco wood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pernambuco wood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.