logwood tree

Questions about logwood tree

What does logwood tree mean?

logwood tree means "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".

What is another word for logwood tree?

Close synonyms include logwood, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is logwood tree a common word?

logwood tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for logwood tree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.