Brazil, named for the brazilwood tree, which is named for Pt. brasa “ember” because the wood has a dark red color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country] Reference

Bama 1L says: 1. Brazil, named for the brazilwood tree, which is named for Pt. brasa “ember” because the wood has a dark red color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country] Reference

When we examine the silk patterns, we find, generally speaking, a similar degree of fastness among the various natural dyes, as with wool; in some instances the colors appear even faster, notice, for example, the catechu brown and the colors given by brazilwood and its allies, with iron mordant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

It includes a padded gig bag and nice brazilwood mongolian horsehair bow with pearlized insets.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | all community in san diego] Reference

Five hundred years ago, the Portuguese and other European invaders arrived and made their own settlements, at first to cut and export brazilwood and later to plant sugar cane they brought from their other colonies in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

•Round stick brazilwood with horsehair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Other dyestuffs, like camwood, brazilwood, and their allies, also young fustic, give always fugitive colors whatever mordant be employed; others again, e.g., weld, old fustic, quercitron bark, flavin, and Persian berries, give fast colors with some mordants and fugitive colors with others; compare, for example, the fast olives of the chromium, copper, and iron mordants with the fugitive yellows given by aluminum and tin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference