blackwood
Noun
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Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees (synset 112544900)
is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of treessubstance meronym: blackwood, blackwood tree - any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
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Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood (synset 112544693)
is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiospermssubtypes:
- acacia melanoxylon, lightwood - tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
- bloodwood tree, campeachy, haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree - 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
- avicennia marina, black mangrove - a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground
substance holonym: blackwood - very dark wood of any of several blackwood treessame as: blackwood tree
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