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LOGWOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("logwood" is a kind of...):
blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)
Meronyms (substance of "logwood"):
logwood (very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye)
Holonyms ("logwood" is a member of...):
genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum (small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("logwood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("logwood" is a substance of...):
bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree (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)