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fustic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfʌstɪk/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English fustik, from Middle French fustec, variant of fustet.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye.
   • […]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell. 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
2. (uncountable, usually) A Eurasian smoketree (Cotinus coggygria), whose wood produces an orange dye.
3. (uncountable, usually) Wood of these trees.
   • Fustic will also dye a yellow with alum for a mordaunt, either on woolen or silk, but it makes a poor color in comparison with the Quercitron, (American yellow oak bark.) 1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72:
4. (uncountable, usually) A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.

Forms

Deriveds

fustin

Synonyms

old fustic (American tree) · Eurasian smoke tree (European tree) · young fustic (European tree) · fustoc (American tree) · Venice sumac (European tree) · fustet (European tree)

Translations (7)

it scòtano (Cotinus coggygria) · bg смрадлика (Cotinus coggygria) · hu cserszömörce (Cotinus coggygria) · grc θάψος (Cotinus coggygria) · grc κοκκυγέα (Cotinus coggygria) · hu sárga cserszömörce (Cotinus coggygria) · de Perückenstrauch (Cotinus coggygria)