fustic

English

Alternative forms

• fustet, fustoc, fustick

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌstɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌstɪk

Noun

fustic (usually uncountable, plural fustics)

1. A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye.
   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

     […] 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.

2. A Eurasian smoketree (Cotinus coggygria), whose wood produces an orange dye.
3. Wood of these trees.
   • 1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72:

     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.)

4. A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.

Synonyms

• (American tree): old fustic, fustoc
• (European tree): young fustic, fustet, Venice sumac, Eurasian smoke tree

Derived terms

• fustin

Translations

Cotinus coggygria

• Bulgarian: смрадлика (bg) f (smradlika)
• German: Perückenstrauch (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: θάψος f (thápsos), κοκκυγέα f (kokkugéa)

• Hungarian: cserszömörce (hu), sárga cserszömörce (hu)
• Italian: scòtano m

References

• fustic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maclura tinctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maclura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eurasian smoketree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cotinus coggygria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Maclura tinctoria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies