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fustic
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FUSTIC
n.[L. fustis.] The wood of the Morus tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, imported and used in dyeing yellow.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
FUSTIC
Fus "tic, n. Etym: [F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc. Cf. Fustet. ]
Defn: The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]
Note: Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet.
New American Oxford Dictionary
fustic
fus tic |ˈfəstik ˈfəstɪk | ▶noun 1 archaic a yellow dye obtained from either of two kinds of timber, esp. that of old fustic. 2 (also old fustic ) a tropical American tree with heartwood that yields dyes and other products. See also young fustic. [Madura (or Chlorophora ) tinctoria, family Moraceae. ] ORIGIN late Middle English: via French from Spanish fustoc, from Arabic fustuḳ, from Greek pistakē ‘pistachio tree. ’
Oxford Dictionary
fustic
fustic |ˈfʌstɪk | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] archaic a yellow dye obtained from either of two kinds of timber, especially that of old fustic. 2 (also old fustic ) a tropical American tree with heartwood that yields dyes and other products. See also young fustic. ●Maclura (or Chlorophora ) tinctoria, family Moraceae. ORIGIN late Middle English: via French from Spanish fustoc, from Arabic fustuq, from Greek pistakē ‘pistachio tree ’.
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