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BLACKWOOD TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
Synonyms:
blackwood; blackwood tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blackwood tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "blackwood tree"):
blackwood (very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackwood tree"):
Acacia melanoxylon; lightwood (tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber)
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)
Avicennia marina; black mangrove (a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground)