Meaning of bloodwood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various trees having red wood:
   Australia, countable, uncountable
2. Certain eucalypts
   Australia, countable, uncountable
3. woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)
   Australia, countable, uncountable
4. paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)
   Australia, countable, uncountable
5. A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).
   Jamaica, countable, uncountable
6. satine (Brosimum paraense), a tree found in Central and South America.
   countable, uncountable
7. Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.
   countable, uncountable
8. logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a tree native to southern Mexico.
   countable, uncountable
9. Wood of such trees.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Besides these two trees, which are the most general form⟳ of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last⟳ so named from its light⟳ red sap, which oozes in a thick stream”

“I cut⟳ bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.”

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