blackwood

plural blackwoods

1. Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
   1. countableuncountableusuallyAfrican blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
   2. countableuncountableusuallyAustralian 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. countableuncountableusuallyBombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
   4. countableuncountableusuallylogwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
2. uncountableusuallyThe very dark wood of such trees.

1. Any of many places around the world.
   1. A hamlet north-east of Loch Carron, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG9543).
   2. An outer suburb west of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7274).
   3. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7943).
   4. A town and community in Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1797).
   5. An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia.
   6. A census-designated place in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
   7. An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
   8. An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
   9. A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
   10. A village in the Shire of Moorabool, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2. An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from the placename.

1. bridgeA 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.