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CAMPEACHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does campeachy mean?
• CAMPEACHY (noun)
The noun CAMPEACHY has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CAMPEACHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree
Hypernyms ("campeachy" is a kind of...):
blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)
Meronyms (substance of "campeachy"):
logwood (very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye)
Holonyms ("campeachy" is a member of...):
genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum (small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees)
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