1. (noun) 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

• bloodwood tree
• campeachy
• haematoxylum campechianum
• logwood tree

1. (noun) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye

• wood

2. (noun) 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

• blackwood
• blackwood tree

1. (noun) 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

• genus haematoxylon
• genus haematoxylum
• haematoxylon
• haematoxylum