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Logwood

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bloodwood treecampeachy
plural
Logwoods
possessive
Logwood's
pluralpossessive
Logwoods'