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GUAIACUM OFFICINALE
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I. (noun)
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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
Synonyms:
Guaiacum officinale; lignum vitae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Guaiacum officinale" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Meronyms (substance of "Guaiacum officinale"):
guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae (hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum)
guaiacum (medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree)
Holonyms ("Guaiacum officinale" is a member of...):
genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum (small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America)
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