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• n  heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
• n  tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry

• The brazilwood, felled by slaves in the New World, was rasped the bark scraped off by criminals in the rasp houses of Amsterdam.

• peachwood
• peach-wood
• pernambuco wood
• Caesalpinia echinata