logwood

very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye

• wood — the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

• 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