GUAIAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guaiac mean? 

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

1. hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUAIAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae

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

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

Holonyms ("guaiac" 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)