pau-brasil

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese pau-brasil. === Noun === pau-brasil (uncountable) brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata. == Portuguese == === Etymology === From pau (“stick, wood”) +‎ brasil (“ember-coloured”). The term originally referred to an Asian species of dyewood, but changed to the current sense after the discovery of Brazil. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Brazil) -iw, (Portugal) -il Hyphenation: pau‧bra‧sil === Noun === pau-brasil m (plural paus-brasil or paus-brasis) brazilwood (a Brazilian timber tree, Paubrasilia echinata) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pau-brasil (obsolete) sappanwood (Biancaea sappan) Synonyms: japão, sapão ==== Related terms ==== brasil Brasil ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Paubrasilia (calque) === Further reading === “pau-brasil”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “pau-brasil”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026