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GUAIAC
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
Synonyms:
guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("guaiac" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("guaiac" is a substance of...):
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)
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