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guaiacum
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun guaiacum has 3 senses
- guaiacum(n = noun.plant) Array - medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree; Array is a kind of natural resin
- guaiacum(n = noun.plant) guaiac, lignum vitae - hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum; Array is a kind of wood
- guaiacum(n = noun.plant) genus guaiacum - small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America; Array is a kind of rosid dicot genus
is a member of bean-caper family, family zygophyllaceae, zygophyllaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
guaiacum, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Haiti.].
- A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America. [1913 Webster]
- The heart wood or the resin of the
Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
guaiacum, n.
1 any tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to tropical America.
2 (also guaiac) a the hard dense oily timber of some of these, esp. G. officinale. Also called LIGNUM VITAE. b the resin from this used medicinally.
1 any tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to tropical America.
2 (also guaiac) a the hard dense oily timber of some of these, esp. G. officinale. Also called LIGNUM VITAE. b the resin from this used medicinally.
Etymology
mod.L f. Sp. guayaco of Haitian orig.
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