1. Noun
A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
2. Noun
The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.
3. Noun
hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
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4. Noun
medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
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