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Noun: bloodwood tree
  1. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood
    - kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis
     
  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
    - logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum

Derived forms: bloodwood trees

Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree, tree

Part of: genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, genus Pterocarpus, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum, Pterocarpus