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Logwood

noun

Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye.

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. Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree.

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"Logwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... attained a proper age, Lady Ann should become his wife. The idea had been familiar to her mind when she yet wore pinafores, and when Harry, the dirtiest of little boys, used to come back with black eyes from school to Drummington, or to his father's house of Logwood, where Lady Ann lived much with her aunt. Both of the young people coincided with the arrangement proposed by the elders, without any protests or difficulty. It no more entered Lady Ann's mind to question the order of her father, ...

— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray

... I am going to try to do: I am going to try to sail this derelict into some port. There is enough of the mainmast standing to allow some sort of a sail, and we can't be so terribly far from land. Besides, this hold is filled with logwood and mahogany. Now this is a valuable cargo, worth at least fifty thousand dollars. The vessel herself isn't worth a great deal, but still something. Here is the point: if we take this vessel into port alone we can claim fifty per ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

Words linked to "Logwood" : wood, Haematoxylon, blackwood tree, genus Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum, blackwood, Haematoxylum campechianum, genus Haematoxylum