sappanwood

Etymology

From sappan + wood.

sappanwood means Wood of Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a flowering timber tree of the legume family Fabaceae that also yields medicine and red dye. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Wood of Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a flowering timber tree of the legume family Fabaceae that also yields medicine and red dye.“The dye I'm talking about is quite a different thing from indigo or sappanwood [translating verzino]; it's a dye that makes the color of myrtle appear like flesh to people!”