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guaiacum

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guai=a=cum

CIDE DICTIONARY

guaiacumn. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native name in Haiti.].
  •  A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

guaiacum, n.
1 any tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to tropical America.
2 (also guaiac) a the hard dense oily timber of some of these, esp. G. officinale. Also called LIGNUM VITAE. b the resin from this used medicinally.

Etymology
mod.L f. Sp. guayaco of Haitian orig.

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