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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