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Haematoxylum

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Noun1.Haematoxylum - small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees
genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Caesalpinioideae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae
campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree, bloodwood tree, logwood - 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
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Hematoxylin is a natural dye derived from the Haematoxylum campechianum tree, (2) a medium-sized, evergreen, thorny tree with small, five-petal, yellow malodorous flowers.
Our debt to the logwood tree: the history of hematoxylin by Smith, Cristina / Medical Laboratory Observer
 
 
 
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