urucun.
/uːruːˈkuː/ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > orange-red dye
urucu1613
achiote1648
roucou1660
anatta1667
notty1725
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 840 The women..are well faced, painted red with Vrucu, which growes in a cod like a beane.
2. The anatta-tree, Bixa orellana; = roucou n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > other trees yielding dyes
achiote1648
Campeachy tree1652
logwood1652
roucou1662
urucu1666
Morinda1754
berberine tree1861
kamachili1866
tanners' tree1884
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 43 The Roucou is the same tree which the Brasilians call Urucu.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §ii. i. 217 The Fruit of the Urucu.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Orleana, in the materia medica, the name of the arnotto, or uruca.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vi. 222 The red [tints are made] with the seeds of the Urucú, or anatto plant.
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