Bloodwood

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈblÊŒdwÊŠd/

Origin

From blood + wood.

Full definition of bloodwood

Noun

1. Any of various trees having red wood, especially certain Australian eucalypts.
• 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 255:I cut bloodwood saplings and shaped a new pair of shafts with an adze.
2. (Jamaica) A loblolly bay (tree).