logwood : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: logwood	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for logwood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
logwood n very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye 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 Synonym(s): logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Logwood \Log"wood`\n. [So called from being imported in logs.] The heartwood of a tree ({H[91]matoxylon Campechianum}), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called h[91]matoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called {Campeachy wood}, and {bloodwood}.