sappanwood

sappanwood
/seuh pan"wood'/, n.
1. a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
2. the tree itself.
Also, sapanwood.
[sappan- < Malay sapang, sapang (sp. sepang) the name of the tree + WOOD1]

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