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    LIGNUM VITAE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 resinplay

    Synonyms:

    Guaiacum officinale; lignum vitae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lignum vitae" is a kind of...):

    angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

    Meronyms (substance of "lignum vitae"):

    guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae (hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum)

    guaiacum (medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree)

    Holonyms ("lignum vitae" is a member of...):

    genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum (small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacumplay

    Synonyms:

    guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lignum vitae" is a kind of...):

    wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

    Holonyms ("lignum vitae" 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)

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