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/ˈfʌstɪk/ · noun
A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye..
[…]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.
Use fustic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fustic means A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye..
Common synonyms include old fustic, fustoc, young fustic, fustet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.
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