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BLACKWOOD

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blackwood" 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"):

blackwood (very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackwood"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blackwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("blackwood" is a substance of...):

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

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