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

The box-tree grew on the flats which separated the ridges from the creek, with the small bread-tree, the bloodwood and pandanus.

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

Holding a frame of comb to the light, you see the clear gold of the bloodwood and the tawny tints of the melaleuca as erratically defined as geographical distinctions in a tinted map.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

At 5.10 a.m. resumed our course north 60 degrees east through a grassy forest of ironbark and bloodwood, with patches of small acacia and triodia.

From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus Charles