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bloodwood tree   (TTS Sound)

The noun bloodwood tree has 2 senses

• bloodwood tree, kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis -- (deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood)


• logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum -- (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)