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n. (blăk"w

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.


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blackwood, name for several trees, especially an acacia.


(Coed-duon) Caerphilly Coed-dduon (1833), Blackwood (1856). ‘Dark wood’. The Welsh name corresponds to the English.

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