bloodwood

plural bloodwoods

1. Any of various trees having red wood:
   1. AustraliacountableuncountableCertain eucalypts

      I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.

      1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 255

      1 more example

      Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

      1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578

   2. Australiacountableuncountablewoody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)
   3. Australiacountableuncountablepaper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)
   4. JamaicacountableuncountableA loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).
   5. countableuncountablesatine (Brosimum paraense), a tree found in Central and South America.
   6. countableuncountableAny of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.
   7. countableuncountablelogwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a tree native to southern Mexico.

      Synonyms: blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood tree

2. uncountableWood of such trees.