LOGWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logwood mean? 

• LOGWOOD (noun)
  The noun LOGWOOD has 2 senses:

1. very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye

2. 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: LOGWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("logwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("logwood" is a substance of...):

bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree (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)

Sense 2

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 ("logwood" is a kind of...):

blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)

Meronyms (substance of "logwood"):

logwood (very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye)

Holonyms ("logwood" is a member of...):

genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum (small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees)

 Context examples 

We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th day of September, 1710; on the 14th we met with Captain Pocock, of Bristol, at Teneriffe, who was going to the bay of Campechy to cut logwood.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)