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bloodwood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈblʌdwʊd/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From blood + wood.

Meanings

1. (Australia, countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ Certain eucalypts
   • 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 1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578:
   • I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze. 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 255:
2. (Australia, countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ Certain eucalypts ▸ woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)
3. (Australia, countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ Certain eucalypts ▸ paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)
4. (Jamaica, countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).
5. (countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ satine (Brosimum paraense), a tree found in Central and South America.
6. (countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any of various trees having red wood: ▸ logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a tree native to southern Mexico.
8. (uncountable) Wood of such trees.

Forms

Deriveds

silver-leaved bloodwood · round-leaved bloodwood

Synonyms

blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood tree

Translations (5)

pt chora-sangue (Pterocarpus) · pt pau-sangue (Pterocarpus) · pjt tjuta (eucalypts with red wood) · pt muirapiranga (Brosimum paraense) · pt conduru (Brosimum paraense)