BLOODWOOD TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodwood tree mean? 

• BLOODWOOD TREE (noun)
  The noun BLOODWOOD TREE has 2 senses:

1. deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood

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

  Familiarity information: BLOODWOOD TREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODWOOD TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bloodwood tree; kiaat; Pterocarpus angolensis

Hypernyms ("bloodwood tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("bloodwood tree" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree

Hypernyms ("bloodwood tree" is a kind of...):

blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)

Meronyms (substance of "bloodwood tree"):

logwood (very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye)

Holonyms ("bloodwood tree" is a member of...):

genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum (small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees)