Logwood - Definition
logwood
n 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 [syn: logwood, logwood
tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum
campechianum]