WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

logwood tree
    n 1: 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 [syn: logwood,
         logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree,
         Haematoxylum campechianum]