blackwood

Other forms: blackwoods

Definitions of blackwood

1. noun

   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
2. noun

   very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
   type of:

   wood

   the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees