guaiacum

English Thesaurus

1. small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	guaiacum officinale, lignum vitae,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bastard lignum vitae, guaiacum sanctum,
definition	:	small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	bean-caper family, family zygophyllaceae, zygophyllaceae,
definition	:	small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea (noun.plant)

2. hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	guaiacum officinale, lignum vitae,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

3. medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	natural resin,
definition	:	a plant exudate (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	guaiacum officinale, lignum vitae,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)