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Haematoxylum campechianum

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Noun1.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 dyeHaematoxylum 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
genus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum - small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees
logwood - very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
blackwood tree, blackwood - any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood


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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.
 
 
 
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