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logwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun logwood has 2 senses
- logwood(n = noun.plant) Array - very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye; Array is a kind of wood
- logwood(n = noun.plant) bloodwood tree, campeachy, haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree - spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye; Array is a member of genus haematoxylon, genus haematoxylum, haematoxylon, haematoxylum
is a kind of blackwood, blackwood tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
logwood, n. [So called from being imported in logs.].
The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum ), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin , and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood , and bloodwood . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
logwood, n.
1 a W. Indian tree, Haematoxylon campechianum.
2 the wood of this, producing a substance used in dyeing.
1 a W. Indian tree, Haematoxylon campechianum.
2 the wood of this, producing a substance used in dyeing.
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