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pernambuco

pernambuco noun: the wood of Paubrasilia echinata.

Noun (1)

pernambuco (uncountable)

  1. The wood of Paubrasilia echinata.
    • Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.2000, James Beament, The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound, page 159

Proper noun capitalized: Pernambuco

Pernambuco

  1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pernambuco

Pernambuco (uncountable)

  1. The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
    • When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.1998 July, Strad
    • [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198

Origin of pernambuco

From the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

Borrowed from Portuguese Pernambuco.

Words formed from pernambuco

Questions about pernambuco

What does pernambuco mean?
Pernambuco means the wood of Paubrasilia echinata.
What part of speech is pernambuco?
Pernambuco can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near pernambuco in the dictionary

  1. Perna
  2. pernach
  3. pernachs
  4. Pernambucan
  5. Pernambucans
  6. pernambuco
  7. pernambucone
  8. pernancies
  9. pernancy
  10. Pernas
  11. perne

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