Haematoxylum campechianum

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Haematoxylum campechianum - spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dyecampeachy, logwood tree, bloodwood tree, logwoodgenus Haematoxylon, genus Haematoxylum, Haematoxylon, Haematoxylum - small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or treeslogwood - very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dyeblackwood tree, blackwood - any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood