noun
- Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye.
- 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: logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum
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