logwood

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

From log + wood.

"Little as you drank of this elixir of logwood? — The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, Herman Melville
A GROVE OF LOGWOOD TREES.--ANTS AT THEIR WORK.--PARASITIC INSECTS.--THE GREAT ANT-EATER.--SPOONBILLS AND HERONS.--LOST IN THE FOREST. — Adventures of a Young Naturalist, Lucien Biart
Logwood is the wood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon campechianum) growing in Central America and the West Indies. — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway

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