bloodwood

English

Etymology

From blood +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈblʌdwʊd/

Noun

bloodwood (plural bloodwoods)

1. Any of various trees having red wood, especially certain Australian eucalypts.
   • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 255:

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

2. (Jamaica) A loblolly bay (tree).

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