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say it: LAH-gwuud
logwood is a noun meaning "very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye". It is pronounced /ˈlɑˌɡwʊd/ — LAH-gwuud. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for logwood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.