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GUAIACUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Guaiacum mean?
• GUAIACUM (noun)
The noun GUAIACUM has 3 senses:
1. medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
2. hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
3. small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America
Familiarity information: GUAIACUM used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("guaiacum" is a kind of...):
natural resin (a plant exudate)
Holonyms ("guaiacum" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae
Hypernyms ("guaiacum" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("guaiacum" 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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum
Hypernyms ("Guaiacum" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)
Context examples
A substance from a type of tree called Guaiacum that grows in the Caribbean.
(Bulnesia sarmientoi Wood Oil, NCI Dictionary)
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