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dye-wood

dye-wood is the alternative form of dyewood.

Meaning of dyewood

Noun

dyewood (countable and uncountable, plural dyewoods)

  1. Any wood (including bark) from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.
    • Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336
  2. A tree from which such wood is harvested.

Forms of dye-wood

pluraldye-woods

Questions about dye-wood

What is dye-wood the alternative form of?
Dye-wood is the alternative form of dyewood.

Words near dye-wood in the dictionary

  1. dye-house
  2. dye-houses
  3. dye-job
  4. dye-jobs
  5. dye-sub
  6. dye-wood
  7. dye-woods
  8. dyeabilities
  9. dyeability
  10. dyeable
  11. dyebath

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