BLOODWOOD

Etymology

Noun

bloodwood (countable and uncountable, plural bloodwoods)

Any of various trees having red wood

(Australia) Certain eucalypts

woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)

paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)

(Jamaica) A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).

Brosimum paraense, a tree found in Central and South America.

Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.

Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

(uncountable) The wood of such trees.

Source: Wiktionary


Blood"wood, n. (Bot.)

Definition: A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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