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noun
guaiacum trees, of species Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The wood or resin from such trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Guaiacum officinale
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Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
noun
hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: guaiac, guaiacum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wood
History
From Latin lignum (“wood”) vitae (“of life”).
