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GENUS GUAIACUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America
Synonyms:
genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Guaiacum" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Guaiacum"):
Guaiacum officinale; lignum vitae (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)
bastard lignum vitae; Guaiacum sanctum (small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood)
Holonyms ("genus Guaiacum" is a member of...):
bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)
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