logwood
Nouns
- (n) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
- (n) 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 campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree, bloodwood tree,