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English → English (gcide) Definition: Caesalpinia Sappan Sapan wood \Sa*pan" wood\ [Malay sapang.] (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by C[ae]salpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.] [1913 Webster] Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oo^]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus , C[ae]salpinia Sappan, and several other trees. [1913 Webster] Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium. [1913 Webster]