Bloodwood
Pronunciation : Blood"wood
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia H?matoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( H?matoxylon campechianum).
(Bot.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913