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Logwood

nounid 85994·updated May 18, 2026
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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

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Variants

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

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
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
§2
very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree

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