资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sapan wood \Sa*pan" wood\ [Malay sapang.] (Bot.)
   A dyewood yielded by {C[ae]salpinia Sappan}, a thorny
   leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands.
   It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also {sappan wood}.]