blood tree
noun
1 Australian = bloodwood.
2A tropical American tree, Croton gossypiifolium (family Euphorbiaceae), yielding a blood-red sap which is used medicinally and for dyeing cloth.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Georg Forster (1754–1794), traveller and naturalist.
- southern
- Southern Alps
- Southern Baptist
- southern belle
- Southern blot
- Southern Comfort
- Southern Cone
- Southern Cross
- Southern Crown
- southern drawl
- southerner
- Southern Fish
- southern-fried
- Southern Gothic
- southern hemisphere
- Southern Indian
- southernisation
- southernise
- southernised
- southernish
- southernism
- southernization
- southernize
- southernized
- pipe roll