Also 7 Campecha, Compeche, 7–9 Campeche, 8 Campechy, -chie, -chio. [From Campeachy on the west coast of Yucatan, in Central America, whence it was originally exported.] The red dye-wood yielded by Hæmatoxylon Campechianum, better known as LOGWOOD. So Campeachy tree.
1652. Wadsworth, Chocolate, 15. Three Cods of the Log-wood or Campeche tree.
1686. Lond. Gaz., No. 2186/1. Four Thousand Quintals of Compeche Wood.
1725. Sloane, Jamaica, II. 184. Campeche-Wood good to dye withal.
1836. Macgillivray, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., xxiv. 370. Campeachy wood abounds in several districts.
1866. Treas. Bot.
