Logwood

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America. countable, uncountable
  2. 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 wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye wordnet
  5. 5
    Wood of any of these trees. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From log + wood.

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