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blackwood

DEFINITIONS OF: blackwood

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n any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood

Synonyms:
blackwood tree
Types:
Acacia melanoxylon, lightwood
tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
Haematoxylum campechianum, bloodwood tree, campeachy, 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
Avicennia marina, black mangrove
a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

n very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees

Type of:
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
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