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logwood |
2 definitions found 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[ae]matoxylon Campechianum}), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called h[ae]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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: logwood n 1: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye 2: 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 [syn: {logwood tree}, {campeachy}, {bloodwood tree}, {Haematoxylum campechianum}]
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