Pernambuco
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Pernambuco¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Portuguese Pernambuco.
proper noun
- A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife.
noun
- The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows. When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.
pernambuco²
Where it comes from
From the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
noun
- The wood of Paubrasilia echinata. Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
