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GENUS GUAIACUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Guaiacum mean? 

GENUS GUAIACUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS GUAIACUM has 1 sense:

1. small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical Americaplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS GUAIACUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS GUAIACUM (noun)


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Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum

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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