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    LOGWOOD TREE

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 dyeplay

    Synonyms:

    bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (substance of "logwood tree"):

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

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

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

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