bloodwood

American  

[bluhd-wood] / ˈblʌdˌwʊd /

noun

1. any of several Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, as E. gummifera or E. ptychocarpa, having rough, scaly bark.

2. an African tree, Pterocarpus angolensis, having reddish wood.

3. the wood of any of these trees.

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bloodwood British  

/ ˈblʌdˌwʊd /

noun

1. any of several species of Australian eucalyptus that exude a red sap

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Etymology

Origin of bloodwood

1715–25; blood + wood ¹; so called from the color of the sap or wood

Example Sentences

Her husband, Joel, a Minnesota native, carved an image of an American Indian and a buffalo out of bloodwood and hung it behind the cash register.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2013

All calls come signed and hand polished, and Young also makes yelpers from bloodwood and other exotics.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the more sandy tracts of bloodwood forest, grew the Nonda, the Pandanus, and the apple-gum.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

Its flats were well-grassed, and very openly timbered with bloodwood, stringy-bark, leguminous Ironbark, then in blossom, and a large tree with white smooth bark, spreading branches, and pinnate leaves.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

The other trees besides the palm were known to the men by colonial appellations, such as the bloodwood and the raspberry-jam.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis