Meaning | 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. |
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Synonym | lignum vitae |
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Member of | Guaiacum, genus Guaiacum | small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America |
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Broader | angiospermous tree, flowering tree | Any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary |
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Substances | guaiacum | medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree |
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lignum vitae, guaiac, guaiacum | Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum |
Spanish | guayacán, guayaco |
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Catalan | guaiac, Guaiacum officinale |
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