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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Guaiacum \Gua"ia*cum\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. guayaco, from native
name in Hayti.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in
tropical America.
2. The heart wood or the resin of the {Guaiacum offinale} or
lignum-vit[ae], a large tree of the West Indies and
Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written
also {guaiac}.]
資料來源 : WordNet®
guaiacum
n 1: medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
2: hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other
trees of the genus Guaiacum [syn: {lignum vitae}, {guaiac}]
3: small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm
and tropical America [syn: {genus Guaiacum}]