Found 2 items, similar to Logwood.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: logwood
logwood
n 1: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree;
used in preparing a purplish red dye
2: 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 [syn:
logwood tree
,
campeachy,
bloodwood tree,
Haematoxylum campechianum
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Logwood
Logwood
\Log"wood`\n. [So called from being imported in logs.]
The heartwood of a tree (
H[ae]matoxylon Campechianum), a
native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing
a crystalline substance called h[ae]matoxylin, and is used
largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in
medicine as an astringent. Also called
Campeachy wood, and
bloodwood.
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