fustic noun. ['fʌstɪk] LME.
[French fustoc from Spanish from Arab. fustu&kdbelow; from Greek pistakē pistachio tree.]
Any of several kinds of wood yielding a yellow dye; esp. (more fully old fustic) that of the tropical American tree Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, or (more fully young fustic) that of the Venetian sumac, Cotinus coggygria. Also, the dye obtained from any of these woods.

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