blackwoods

Noun

blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) 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
3. (countable, uncountable, usually) Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
4. (countable, uncountable, usually) logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
5. (usually) The very dark wood of such trees.

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