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Webster 1913 Edition
Bloodwood
Blood′wood
,Noun.
(Bot.)
A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (
Baloghia lucida
), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon
of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus
; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum
).