LOGWOOD

logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum

(noun) 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

logwood

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

logwood (plural logwoods)

A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.

Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.

Anagrams

• Goodlow

Source: Wiktionary

Log"wood` n. Etym: [So called from being imported in logs.]

Definition: The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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