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

tree}, {campeachy}, {bloodwood tree}, {Haematoxylum

campechianum}]