guaiacum

Noun
  1. Medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree (synset 112743528)
    is a type of: natural resin - a plant exudate
    substance meronym: 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
  2. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum (synset 112743142)
    is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
    substance meronym: 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
    same as: guaiac, lignum vitae
  3. Small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America (synset 112742624)
    is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym:
    • 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
    • bastard lignum vitae, guaiacum sanctum - small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood
    belongs to: bean-caper family, family zygophyllaceae, zygophyllaceae - small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea
    same as: genus guaiacum

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