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Definition of Caesalpinia echinata
1. Noun. Tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry.
Group relationships: Caesalpinia, Genus Caesalpinia
Terms within: Brazilwood
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caesalpinia Echinata
Literary usage of Caesalpinia echinata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"Caesalpinia crista, Linné. West-Indies and Carolina. This shrub or tree furnishes
a yellow dye-wood. Caesalpinia echinata. Lamarck. Brazil. ..."
2. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"It is the heart, or central part, of a large Brasilian tree, the caesalpinia
echinata. Other dyeing woods had, however, been previously known under the name ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... Calycanthus, Caesalpinia echinata, &o. Oil and mucilage-tubes also occur in
the wood of some ..."
4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"... Ipecacuanha, Pilo- carpus, Jacaranda or rose-wood, Dialium ferrum, Caesalpinia
echinata giving Brazil dye-wood, and Araucaria flourish. ..."
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