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A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments..
Sixthly, he manufactures in manner following a red writing ink, which is greatly superior to the common solutions from peach wood and Brazil wood, not only in permanent brilliancy of color, but also in its freedom from acid, and consequent fitness for use with steel pens.
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.
Use brazilwood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Brazilwood means A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments..
Common synonyms include braziletto, peachwood, caesalpinia echinata, pernambuco wood.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Sixthly, he manufactures in manner following a red writing ink, which is greatly superior to the common solutions from peach wood and Brazil wood, not only in permanent brilliancy of color, but also in its freedom from acid, and consequent fitness for use with steel pens.
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