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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 log·wood /ˈlɔgˌwʊd, ˈlɑg-/
 蘇方木,其心材

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 log·wood /ˈlɔgˌwʊd, ˈlɑg-/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Log·wood n.  The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 logwood
      n 1: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree;
           used in preparing a purplish red dye
      2: 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
         tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum
         campechianum]