African padauk

noun

1

: an African tree (Pterocarpus soyauxii) that yields a close-grained reddish brown wood important especially as a source of red dyestuff compare redwood

2

: the wood of African padauk

called also barwood

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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