blackwood tree

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blackwood tree - any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood blackwood Acacia melanoxylon, lightwood - tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber 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 blackwood - very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees Avicennia marina, black mangrove - a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms