English noun: logwood |
1. | logwood (plant) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wood |
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| Substance meronym | bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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2. | logwood (plant) 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 |
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| Synonyms | bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree |
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| Broader (hypernym) | blackwood, blackwood tree |
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| Member meronym | genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum |
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| Substance holonym | logwood |
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