NOUN | plant | blackwood | very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees |
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plant | blackwood, blackwood tree | any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood |
Sounds | blae'kwuh.d | |
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Rhymes | adulthood ... wormwood: 60 rhymes with uhd... |
Meaning | Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees. | |
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Broader | wood | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
Substance of | blackwood, blackwood tree | Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood |
Meaning | Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood. | |
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Synonym | blackwood tree | |
Narrower | black mangrove, Avicennia marina | A mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast |
lightwood, Acacia melanoxylon | tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | |
logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum | 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 | |
Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
Substances | blackwood | Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees |
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