| NOUN | plant | logwood tree, logwood, 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | logwood, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum | |
| Member of | Haematoxylum, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylon | small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees |
| Broader | blackwood, blackwood tree | Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood |
| Substances | logwood | Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree |
| Spanish | campeche | |
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