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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 treeplay

2. hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacumplay

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

  Familiarity information: GUAIACUM used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


GUAIACUM (noun)


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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