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Fustic vs Morin - What's the difference?

fustic | morin |

As nouns the difference between fustic and morin

is that fustic is a tropical American tree, species: Maclura tinctoria, whose wood produces a yellow dye while morin is a yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool.

As a proper noun Morin is

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fustic

English

Alternative forms

* fustick (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A tropical American tree, , whose wood produces a yellow dye.
  • A European tree, Eurasian smoketree, , whose wood produces an orange dye.
  • The wood of these trees.
  • 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)

    Quotations

    * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe *: ...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.

    See also

    * (Old Fustic) * (Maclura) * (Eurasian smoketree) * (Cotinus coggygria) * (Maclura tinctoria)

    morin

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool

    • Synonyms

    * moric acid

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