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Webster 1913 Edition

Haematoxylon

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Haemˊa-tox′y-lon

(-lŏn)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

αἷμα

blood +

ξύλον

wood.]

(Bot.)

A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the

Haematoxylon Campechianum

or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.