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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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