noun
- an extract from certain tropical plants used in tanning and dyeing
Usage: technical
Examples
- The leather was treated with cutch to give it a rich brown color.
- Cutch has been used as a natural dye for centuries.
- The tannery imported cutch from Southeast Asia.
- Traditional textile workers valued cutch for its deep reddish-brown hue.
- The extract of cutch comes from the heartwood of acacia trees.