1. 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
   "campeachy extract was historically important in textile dyeing";
   - logwood, logwood tree, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum

Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree

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

Encyclopedia: Campeachy