| NOUN | plant | blackwood tree, blackwood | any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood |
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| Meaning | Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood. | |
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| Synonym | blackwood | |
| 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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