blackwood

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Editorial note

Contrast this with any African blackwood and you are looking at 50 years minimum till maturity and possible as long as 100 year.

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Quick take

African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa

Meaning at a glance

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African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa

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Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia

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Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blackwood.

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African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa

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Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia

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Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India

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logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.

Example sentences

Contrast this with any African blackwood and you are looking at 50 years minimum till maturity and possible as long as 100 year.

Somehow I bet Kate Blackwood is certain that she's not on the fringe.

Hmm, well I got cherry - picker = blackwood if that helps.

The two suspects — 21-year-old Trayon Morgan and 38-year-old Roy Blackwood — now face charges of organized scheme to defraud and grand theft following their arrests earlier this month, police say.

Mr John Fidge, his Year 11 Mathematics teacher at Blackwood High School for the first two terms of 1983, told me that after he had been attending the Year 11 Mathematics classes for about a fortnight he was accepted as just another member of the class.

> he entries marked with an asterisk (*) were to take place at Bellevue Heights Primary School (Year 5) and the others at Blackwood High School (year 8: General Studies, Year 11: Physics, Year 12: Mathematics).

For example, we've precious little of timbers such as sandalwood, lignum vitae, ebony, and various Dalbergia genus rosewoods (retusa/Cocobolo, nigra/Brazilian rosewood, melanoxylon/African blackwood, etc.), as many take several hundred years to mature and no one had the foresight to plant forests of them back in the 18th Century!

Quote examples

According to the sheriff's office, "On January 24, 2023, detectives conducted a surveillance operation and observed Morgan and Blackwood travel to 27 different Walgreens committing fraud that totaled a $5,013.28 loss for Uber that day.

I've almost finished memorizing "Tango Azul" by Nemanja Bogunovic[3], and I'm working on learning "Autumn Leaves" also arranged by Yenne Lee[4], and "Blackwood Lullaby" by Justin Johnson[5].

Proper noun examples

Blackwood River forest is just one example.

Blake wrote the poem The Chimney Sweeper about boys sold into the trade long before the 1850s and Elizabeth Barrett Browning published The Cry of the Children in Blackwood's magazine in 1843.