Definitions for logwood

logwood log·wood

Spelling: [lawg-woo d, log-]
IPA: /ˈlɔgˌwʊd, ˈlɒg-/

Logwood is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in logwood (dglooow).

Definitions for logwood

noun

  1. the heavy, brownish-red heartwood of a West Indian and Central American tree, Haematoxylon campechianum, of the legume family, used in dyeing.
  2. the tree itself.

Origin of logwood

First recorded in 1575-85; log1 + wood1

Examples for logwood

Dip the goods in—when saturated with it, turn the whole into the logwood dye.

logwood is one of the cheapest and most easily managed of the dye stuffs.

Decoction of logwood and alum; also blues tempered with bright red.

If we get a pink to deep red solution we have logwood black.

The Bay of Campeachy supplied about 1,000 tons of logwood annually.

The logwood extract is cheap and comes in the form of gum or resin.

logwood is often used also in conjunction with coal-tar dyestuffs.

From logwood also may be obtained different shades of Violet.

Because there was logwood ink in existence every year since 1866, till now.

Allow a pound of logwood to each pound of goods that are to be dyed.

Word Value for logwood
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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