Logwood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Logwood is a noun meaning A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
Meaning
A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
More Meanings
- Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
- Wood of any of these trees.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- logwoods
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cutters, blackwood, bluewood, bloodwood, camwood, letterwood.
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