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bloodwood

/ˈblʌdwʊd/

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From blood + wood.

noun bloodwoods

Australia, countable, uncountable Certain eucalypts Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
Australia, countable, uncountable woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)
Australia, countable, uncountable paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)
Jamaica, countable, uncountable A loblolly bay (tree) (Gordonia haematoxylon).
countable, uncountable satine (Brosimum paraense), a tree found in Central and South America.
countable, uncountable Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.
countable, uncountable logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a tree native to southern Mexico.
Similar: blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche lo
uncountable Wood of such trees.

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noun Brosimum paraense

Português	muirapiranga, conduru

noun Pterocarpus

Português	pau-sangue, chora-sangue

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@misc{bloodwood_2026,
  title = {bloodwood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bloodwood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}