guaiacum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: guai=a=cum

CIDE DICTIONARY

guaiacum, n. [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.