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CAMPEACHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does campeachy mean? 

CAMPEACHY (noun)
  The noun CAMPEACHY has 1 sense:

1. 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 dyeplay

  Familiarity information: CAMPEACHY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAMPEACHY (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("campeachy" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (substance of "campeachy"):

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

Holonyms ("campeachy" is a member of...):

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


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