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

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bloodwood

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 its immediate neighbourhood, the country was beautifully grassed, and openly timbered with bloodwood, stringy-bark, the leguminous Ironbark, and the white-barked tree of the Abel Tasman.

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

The country we saw from our path along the right bank of the river was not, of course, extensive, but what we saw was flat, covered with long grass, and wooded with bloodwood and gum.

From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough

But the stolid tree—a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life—afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield