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    BLACKWOOD TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored woodplay

    Synonyms:

    blackwood; blackwood tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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