logwood

Meaning

Noun

  • A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum (species), in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
  • Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
  • The wood of any of these trees.

Origin

  • log + wood

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