LOGWOOD TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logwood tree mean? 

• LOGWOOD TREE (noun)
  The noun LOGWOOD TREE 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 dye

  Familiarity information: LOGWOOD TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGWOOD TREE (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "logwood tree"):

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

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

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