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GUAIACUM OFFICINALE

Pronunciation (US):

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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