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logwood vs blackwood

blackwood vs logwood

logwood and blackwood both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
logwood Yes No No No
blackwood Yes No No No
As nouns, blackwood is a hypernym of logwood; that is, blackwood is a word with a broader meaning than logwood:
  • logwood: spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye
  • blackwood: any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
Other hypernyms of logwood include blackwood tree.
logwood (noun) blackwood (noun)
spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
Difference between logwood and blackwood

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