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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 375 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FUSTIC (Fr. fusloc, from Arab. fustuq, Gr. =rw-r&Krl, pistachio) YELLOW  Woos or OLD See also:FusTIC, a dye-stuff consisting of the See also:wood of Chlorophora tinctoria, a large See also:tree of the natural See also:order See also:Moraceae, growing in the See also:West Indies and tropical See also:America . Fustic occurs in See also:commerce in blocks, which are See also:brown without, and of a brownish-yellow within . It is sometimes employed for inlaid See also:work . The dye-stuff termed See also:young fustic or See also:Zante fustic, and also Venetian See also:sumach, is the wood of Rhus cotinus (fustet, or See also:smoke tree), a See also:southern See also:European and See also:Asiatic See also:shrub of the natural order Anacardiaceae, called by Gerarde " red sumach," and apparently the " coccygia " and " cotinus " of See also:Pliny (Nat . Hist. xiii . 41, xvi . 30) . Its colouring See also:matter is fisetin, C15H1006, which was synthesized by S. von Kostanecki (Ber., 1904, 37, p . 384) .

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