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BLOODWOOD TREE

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bloodwood tree" is a kind of...):

blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)

Meronyms (substance of "bloodwood tree"):

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

Holonyms ("bloodwood tree" is a member of...):

genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum (small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood

Synonyms:

bloodwood tree; kiaat; Pterocarpus angolensis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bloodwood 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)

Holonyms ("bloodwood tree" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)

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