logwood

English

logwood

Wikispecies

Etymology

From log +‎ wood.

Noun

logwood (countable and uncountable, plural logwoods)

1. A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.

   Synonyms: blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood; logwood tree

2. Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
3. The wood of any of these trees.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 164:

     In the latter part of the eighteenth century in Maryland, [Easter] eggs were boiled in logwood which dyed the shells crimson, and the patterns would be scratched away with a pin.

Translations

Haematoxylum campechianum

• Bulgarian: сандалово дърво n (sandalovo dǎrvo)
• Catalan: campetx m
• Czech: kreveň obecná f, kampeškový strom m
• French: campêche (fr) m
• Portuguese: campeche m
• Romanian: băcan (ro) n
• Russian: кампешевое дерево (ru) n (kampeševoje derevo)
• Spanish: palo campeche m, campeche m, palo tinta f

See also

• hematoxylin

Anagrams

• Goodlow