Definition of "brazilwood"

brazilwood

noun
usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods
1. A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  Quotations
  He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.
  2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198