1. Deciduous South African tree with large odd-pinnate leaves and fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields red juice and durable wood
   "bloodwood tree is prized for furniture-making";
   - 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
   "bloodwood tree extract was historically important in textile dyeing";
   - 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