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n. - Spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers;

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  • All this from a little tree simply called logwood.
  • It can be detected by the so-called "logwood" test, which is prepared and used as follows:
  • Most of the natural colouring matters, such as logwood and fustic, belong to another group of dye-stuffs.
  • Dye with 60 per cent logwood and 25 per cent madder.
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