pernambuco

noun1

1. •
   The wood of Paubrasilia echinata.

   • Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil. — 2000

noun2

1. •
   The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.

   • When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to. — 1998
2. •
   A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife.