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
   "Logwood extract was historically important in textile dyeing"; "logwood tree extract was historically important in textile dyeing";
   - logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum
    
2. Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
   "Textile artisans used logwood to create rich purple hues in their fabrics"

Derived forms: logwoods

Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree, wood

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

Encyclopedia: Logwood