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Guaiacum   Listen
noun
Guaiacum  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
2.
The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. (Written also guaiac)





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"Guaiacum" Quotes from Famous Books



... compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


Words linked to "Guaiacum" :   wood, guaiac, genus Guaiacum, bean-caper family, natural resin, guaiacum wood, Guaiacum sanctum, lignum vitae, Guaiacum officinale, bastard lignum vitae, family Zygophyllaceae, rosid dicot genus, Zygophyllaceae


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