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What is a logwood?

What is a logwood? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
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The many disputes and difficulties that arose over the rights of growing and cutting logwood are a matter of history.
On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
British buccaneers and logwood cutters settled on the inhospitable coast in the mid-17th century.
Mahogany cutting and removal were dramatically more labor-intensive than logwood.
The region was a habitat for logwood, a species of small tree found in parts of the southwestern Caribbean that was most commonly used to make a black dye.
Considerable quantities of lime and magnesia in the water will cause duller shades with logwood and fustic dyeings.

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