blackwood
blackwood noun: african blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
Noun
blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)
- African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
- Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia.
- His first act was to spring up into the branches of a tall wattle-tree which grows at the extreme edge of her garden amid a grove of blackwood.1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21
- Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
- logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
- The very dark wood of such trees.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Blackwood
Blackwood
- A hamlet north-east of Loch Carron, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG9543).
- An outer suburb west of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7274).
- A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7943).
- A town and community in Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1797).
- An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia.
- A census-designated place in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
- A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
- A village in the Shire of Moorabool, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from the placename.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Blackwood
Blackwood
- A bidding convention in contract bridge, used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract.
blackwood meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
blackwood in Hindi
- ब्लैकवुड
blackwood in Tamil
- படீரம், கருந்துவரை, தோதகத்தி
blackwood in Urdu
- بلیک ووڈ
blackwood in Bengali
- ব্ল্যাকউড
More languagesFewer languages
- blackwood in Kannada
- ನೂಕೆ
- blackwood in Punjabi
- ਬਲੈਕਵੁੱਡ
- blackwood in Gujarati
- બ્લેકવુડ
- blackwood in Odia
- ବ୍ଲାକଉଡ୍
- blackwood in Nepali
- ब्ल्याकवुड
Forms of blackwood
| plural | blackwoods |
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Origin of blackwood
From black + wood.
Developed by Easley Blackwood.
Words formed from blackwood
Phrases with blackwood
Questions about blackwood
- What does blackwood mean?
- Blackwood means african blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
- What is blackwood in Hindi?
- Blackwood in Hindi is ब्लैकवुड. See Blackwood meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is blackwood?
- Blackwood can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of blackwood?
- The plural of blackwood is blackwoods.
Words near blackwood in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blackwood (page history and authors); Blackwood (page history and authors); blackwood (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blackwood (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blackwood (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackwood (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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