Bloodwood
//ˈblʌdwʊd// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of various trees having red wood:; Certain eucalypts Australia, countable, uncountable
"Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream"
- 2 Any of various trees having red wood:; Certain eucalypts; woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia) Australia, countable, uncountable
- 3 Any of various trees having red wood:; Certain eucalypts; paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella) Australia, countable, uncountable
- 4 Any of various trees having red wood:; A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon). Jamaica, countable, uncountable
- 5 Any of various trees having red wood:; satine (Brosimum paraense), a tree found in Central and South America. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Any of various trees having red wood:; Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics. countable, uncountable
- 7 Any of various trees having red wood:; logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a tree native to southern Mexico. countable, uncountable
- 8 Wood of such trees. uncountable
Example
More examples"Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream"
Etymology
From blood + wood.
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