- guaiacum wood
- nounheartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes• Syn: ↑guaiac wood• Hypernyms: ↑wood• Substance Holonyms: ↑palo santo, ↑Bulnesia sarmienti
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nounsee guaiac wood
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Guaiacum — Taxobox name = Guaiacum image width = 250px image caption = Guiacum officinale regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Zygophyllales familia = Zygophyllaceae genus = Guaiacum genus authority = L. subdivision ranks … Wikipedia
Guaiacum — Gua ia*cum, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Haiti.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America. [1913 Webster] 2. The heart wood or the resin of the {Guaiacum officinale} or lignum vit[ae], a large tree… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Guaiacum officinale — Guaiacum Gua ia*cum, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Haiti.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America. [1913 Webster] 2. The heart wood or the resin of the {Guaiacum officinale} or lignum vit[ae], a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
guaiacum — [gwī′ə kəm] n. [ModL < Sp guayaco < Taino guayacan] 1. any of a genus (Guaiacum) of trees of the caltrop family native to tropical America, with blue or purple flowers and fruit growing in capsules 2. the hard, dense wood of any of these… … English World dictionary
guaiacum — Lignum vitae Lig num vi tae (l[i^]g n[u^]m v[imac] t[=e]), n. [L., wood of life; lignum wood + vita, genitive vit[ae], life.] (Bot.) A tree ({Guaiacum officinale}) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the {guaiacum} of medicine is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Guaiacum officinale — Lignum vitae Lig num vi tae (l[i^]g n[u^]m v[imac] t[=e]), n. [L., wood of life; lignum wood + vita, genitive vit[ae], life.] (Bot.) A tree ({Guaiacum officinale}) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the {guaiacum} of medicine is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Guaiacum sanctum — Taxobox status = EN | status system = IUCN2.3 regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Zygophyllales familia = Zygophyllaceae genus = Guaiacum species = G. sanctum binomial = Guaiacum sanctum binomial authority = L … Wikipedia
guaiacum — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish guayaco, from Taino guayacan Date: 1553 1. any of a genus (Guaiacum) of the caltrop family of tropical American evergreen trees and shrubs having pinnate leaves, usually blue flowers, and capsular fruit 2.… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Guaiacum officinale — 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 • Syn: ↑lignum vitae • Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering… … Useful english dictionary
guaiacum — guai·a·cum g(w)ī ə kəm n 1) cap a genus (family Zygophyllaceae) of tropical American trees and shrubs having pinnate leaves, usu. blue flowers, and capsular fruit 2) any tree or shrub of the genus Guaiacum 3) a resin with a faint balsamic odor… … Medical dictionary
