Hypertext Webster Gateway: "logwood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Logwood \Log"wood`\n. [So called from being imported in logs.]
The heartwood of a tree ({H[ae]matoxylon Campechianum}), a
native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing
a crystalline substance called h[ae]matoxylin, and is used
largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in
medicine as an astringent. Also called {Campeachy wood}, and
{bloodwood}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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