pau-brasil
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See also: Pau Brasil
English
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[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese pau-brasil.
Noun
[edit]Portuguese
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Etymology
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From pau (“stick, wood”) + brasil (“ember-coloured”). The term originally refered to an Asian species of dyewood, but changed to the current sense after the discovery of Brazil.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]pau-brasil m (plural paus-brasil or paus-brasis)
- brazilwood (a Brazilian timber tree, Paubrasilia echinata)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pau-brasil
- (obsolete) sappanwood (Biancaea sappan)
- Synonym: sapão
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- pt:Trees
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