Definition of "Pernambuco"

Pernambuco

proper noun
1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife
noun
uncountable
1. The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
  Quotations
  When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.
  1998 July, Strad
  [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.
  2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198