guaiac

English Thesaurus

1. hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	guaiacum officinale, lignum vitae,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)