brazil wood
11Wood economy — The existence of a wood economy, or more correctly, a forest economy (since in many countries a bamboo economy predominates), is a prominent matter in many developing countries as well as in many other nations with temperate climate and… …
12brazil — /breuh zil /, n. brazilwood. [1350 1400; ME brasile < ML < It < Sp brasil, deriv. of brasa live coal (the wood being red in color) < Gmc; see BRAISE] * * * Brazil Introduction Brazil Background: Following three centuries under the rule of… …
13Brazil — Brazilian /breuh zil yeuhn/, adj., n. /breuh zil /, n. a republic in South America. 164,511,366; 3,286,170 sq. mi. (8,511,180 sq. km). Cap.: Brasília. Portuguese and Spanish, Brasil. Official name, Federative Republic of Brazil. * * * Brazil… …
14brazil — /brəˈzɪl/ (say bruh zil) noun 1. Also, brazilwood. a wood from various tropical American trees of the genus Caesalpinia (especially C. echinata) and allied genera, yielding red and purple dyes. 2. the red dye extracted from it. 3. Also,… …
15Robin Wood (comics) — Robin Wood (born 1944 in New Australia, Paraguay) is a comic book writer. Of Irish origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various different jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver,… …
16Sapan wood — Sa*pan wood [Malay sapang.] (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by {C[ae]salpinia Sappan}, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also {sappan wood}.] [1913 Webster] …
17sappan wood — Sapan wood Sa*pan wood [Malay sapang.] (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by {C[ae]salpinia Sappan}, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also {sappan wood}.] [1913 Webster] …
18Nicaragua wood — Nic a*ra gua wood Brazil wood. [1913 Webster] …
19lima-wood — liˈma wood noun A kind of brazil wood • • • Main Entry: ↑lima …
20List of birds of Brazil — Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world, with more than 1700 species of birds, about 57% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing, almost every year, due to new occurrences or… …
