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
Haematoxylon 1
noundomain: plant
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
English
Definition
small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees
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