bloodwood

noun
/ˈblʌdwʊd/

Etymology

From blood + wood.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-
  2. inherited from *widuz
  3. inherited from *widu
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. compounded as bloodwood — “blood + wood

Definitions

  1. Any of various trees having red wood

    Any of various trees having red wood:

    • 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
    • I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.
  2. Wood of such trees.

The neighborhood

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