fustics

Noun

fustic (usually uncountable, plural fustics)

1. (usually) A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye.
   • […]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   old fustic, fustoc, young fustic, fustet, Venice sumac, Eurasian smoke tree

2. (usually) A Eurasian smoketree (Cotinus coggygria), whose wood produces an orange dye.
3. (usually) Wood of these trees.
   • Fustic will also dye a yellow with alum for a mordaunt, either on woolen or silk, but it makes a poor color in comparison with the Quercitron, (American yellow oak bark.)1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72
4. (usually) A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.