English noun: logwood tree | |||
1. | logwood tree (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 | ||
Synonyms | bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood | ||
Broader (hypernym) | blackwood, blackwood tree | ||
Member meronym | genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum | ||
Substance holonym | logwood | ||