bloodwood
Americannoun
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any of several Australian trees of the genus Eucalyptus, as E. gummifera or E. ptychocarpa, having rough, scaly bark.
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an African tree, Pterocarpus angolensis, having reddish wood.
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the wood of any of these trees.
noun
Etymology
Origin of bloodwood
1715–25; blood + wood 1; so called from the color of the sap or wood
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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
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The Pandanus and the bloodwood grew on its limited flats.
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 Ludwig Leichhardt
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 Ludwig Leichhardt
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