logwood

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A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America
{n} a wood brought form Campeachy
An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent
very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing
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
Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood
{i} leguminous tree from which a crystalline substance is obtained to be used in the production of various dyes and stains
campeachy wood
logwood
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