bloodwood tree

Noun

• 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

• deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  logwood , logwood tree , campeachy , Haematoxylum campechianum , kiaat , Pterocarpus angolensis