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blackwood¹

Where it comes from

From black + wood.

noun blackwoods

  1. countable, uncountable, usually African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
  2. countable, uncountable, usually Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia. His first act was to spring up into the branches of a tall wattle-tree which grows at the extreme edge of her garden amid a grove of blackwood.
  3. countable, uncountable, usually Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
  4. countable, uncountable, usually logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
  5. uncountable, usually The very dark wood of such trees.

Blackwood²

Where it comes from

From black + wood.

proper noun

  1. A hamlet north-east of Loch Carron, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG9543).
  2. An outer suburb west of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7274).
  3. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7943).
  4. A town and community in Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1797).
  5. An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia.
  6. A census-designated place in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
  7. An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
  8. An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
  9. A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
  10. A village in the Shire of Moorabool, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  11. An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from the placename.

Blackwood³

Where it comes from

Developed by Easley Blackwood.

proper noun

  1. A bidding convention in contract bridge, used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: blackwood tree, bloodwood, ebony, black walnut, bluewood, wood, everblack, logwood, bogwood, tasmanian blackwood, black alder, mahogany, blackthorn, mixedwood, musclewood, black haw

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@misc{blackwood_2026,
  title = {blackwood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blackwood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}