saffron wood (safronwud)

A South African tree, Elæodendron croceum. It has a fine-grained hard and tough wood, which is useful for beams, agricultural implements, etc., and its bark is used for tanning and dyeing. Upper Part of Stem of Safflower ( Cart ham us tinct or i us ), with the saffrony (saf'ron-i), a. [ heads. a, a flower; b, c, the two different kinds of involucral leaves. Europe, Egypt, India, and China. It is sometimes planted in herb and flower-gardens in the United States. Safflower as a medicine has little power, but is still in domestic use as a substitute for saffron. As a dyestuff (its chief application), it imparts bright but fugitive tints of red in various shades. It is extensively used at Lyons and in In dia and China in dyeing silks, but has been largely replaced by the aniline dyes. It is much employed the preparation of rouge, and serves also to adulterate saffron. (See cart ham in.) In India a lighting and culinary oil is largely expre ed from its seeds. Also called African, or bastard, and dyers ' saffron. The finest and best saflower, commanding the highest price, comes from China. ing the color of saffron. The woman was of complexion yellowish or saffrony , as on whose face the sun had too freely cast his beams. Lord, Hist. of the Banians (1630), p. 9. ( Latham .) safranine (saf'ra-nin), n . [ F.safran , saffron, + -ine2.] A coal-tar color used in dyeing, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of amido-azo toluene and toluidine. It gives yellowish-red shades on wool, silk, and cotton, and is fairly fast to light. safranophile (saf'ran-ō-fil), a. [ A. G. F. Eliot James , Indian Industries, p. 131. cells.