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bloodwood
[ bluhd-wood ]
noun
- any of several Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, as E. gummifera or E. ptychocarpa, having rough, scaly bark.
- an African tree, Pterocarpus angolensis, having reddish wood.
- the wood of any of these trees.
bloodwood
/ ˈblʌdˌwʊd /
noun
- any of several species of Australian eucalyptus that exude a red sap
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Example Sentences
Some patches of stiffer soil were covered with box or with straggling apple-gum and bloodwood.
The country near this part of the river is wooded with stunted bloodwood.
It is undulating poor land of a sandstone formation, grassed with triodia and wooded with ironbark and bloodwood.
Amongst these I observed broad-leaved ironbark and broad-leaved box, bloodwood, currajong, and bottle-trees.
It was wooded with broad-leaved box, broad-leaved ironbark, Moreton Bay ash, bloodwood and cypress pine.
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