fusteric

English

Noun

fusteric (uncountable)

  1. The colouring matter of fustet.
    • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
      The wood of the Rhus cotinus , a shrub which grows principally in the south of France and in Italy , called also Venetian sumach . This wood contains a large quantity of yellow colouring matter , named fusteric.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fusteric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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