fustic

fustic
/fus"tik/, n.
1. the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
2. the tree itself.
3. the dye.
4. any of several other dyewoods. Also called old fustic (for defs. 1-3).
[1425-75; late ME fustik < MF fustoc < Ar fustuq < Pers pistah; akin to Gk pistáke pistachio tree]

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dye
      either of two natural dyes. Old fustic, or yellowwood, is derived from the heartwood of dyer's mulberry, a large, tropical American tree (Chlorophora tinctoria, or Maclura tinctoria) of the mulberry family, Moraceae. The dye produces yellows on wool mordanted (fixed) with chromium salts.

      The dye termed young fustic (zante fustic, or Venetian sumac) is derived from the wood of the smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria, or Rhus cotinus), a southern European and Asian shrub of the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. Both old and new fustic have been displaced from commercial importance by synthetic dyes.

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