Dictionary

blackwood en · NOUN

Etymology

From black + wood.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood. ▸ African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood. ▸ Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia.
   • His first act was to spring up into the branches of a tall wattle-tree which grows at the extreme edge of her garden amid a grove of blackwood. 1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21:
3. (countable, uncountable, usually) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood. ▸ Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
4. (countable, uncountable, usually) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood. ▸ logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
5. (uncountable, usually) The very dark wood of such trees.

Forms

Deriveds

Tasmanian blackwood

Relateds

backwoods