lignum vitae
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1. 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)
| member meronym | : | genus guaiacum, guaiacum, |
| definition | : | small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | guaiac, guaiacum, lignum vitae, |
| definition | : | hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | guaiacum, |
| definition | : | medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree (noun.plant) |
2. 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) |
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