ALOES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aloes mean? 

• ALOES (noun)
  The noun ALOES has 1 sense:

1. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe

  Familiarity information: ALOES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALOES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A purgative made from the leaves of aloe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aloes; bitter aloes

Hypernyms ("aloes" is a kind of...):

aperient; cathartic; physic; purgative (a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels)

 Context examples 

In mercy I put a bullet through his skull, and he fell sprawling among the aloes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were two great aloes, in tubs, on the turf outside the windows; the broad hard leaves of which plant (looking as if they were made of painted tin) have ever since, by association, been symbolical to me of silence and retirement.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)