very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
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
A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.