aloe

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Either moisturizer or aloe would work fine but I would recommend starting with the aloe, and then down to the lotion. the aloe will be more soothing.

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  1. noun Any of various chiefly African plants of the genus Aloe, having rosettes of succulent, often spiny-margined leaves and long stalks bearing yellow, orange, or red tubular flowers.
  2. noun See aloe vera.
  3. noun A laxative drug obtained from the processed juice of a certain species of aloe. Also called bitter aloes.

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  • There was the aloe, and more than one kind of cactus, growing freely in the open air, with many other plants which would need the hothouse or greenhouse in a colder climate. —  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
  • ALOEINE.--Inflexibly succulent, as of the aloe or houseleek No rigid application of these terms must ever be attempted but they direct the attention to important general conditions, and will often be found to save time and trouble in description IV. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
  • By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave While in Arizona I used to carry in a saddle pocket a small sketch-book and pencil, and on finding one of the beautiful wild flowers the Rocky Mountains are so famous for, that is, a new kind, I would at once get down and take a sketch of it, with notes as to colour, etc. The boys were at first a bit surprised, and no doubt wondered how easily an apparent idiot could amuse himself. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • Around the villages were clearings, and whereas in the plains below maize was chiefly cultivated, the largest proportion of the fields, here, were devoted to plantations of the aloe or maguey. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
  • Some of the women wore veils made of fine thread of the aloe, or that spun from the hair of rabbits and other animals. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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  1. Middle English, from Old English aluwe, from Latin aloē, from Greek.

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  1. from Middle English aloe, also, and earlier always, in plural form aloes, alowes, allowes, earlier aloen, from Anglo-Saxon aluwan, alewan, alwan, plural of unused singular *aluwe, *alwe = Dutch aloë = German aloe = Swedish aloe = Danish aloe = French aloès, earlier written aloës, Old French aloe = Provencal aloa, aloe, aloes, aloeu = Spanish Portuguese Italian aloe = Russian aloe = Polish aloes, from Latin aloē, Middle Latin also aloes, alues, alua (later Anglo-Saxon *aluwe, *alwe, above), from Greek ἀλόη, the aloe, i. e., properly, a plant of the genus Aloë, and the drug prepared therefrom, but used also, by confusion, in the Septuagint and the New Testament (and hence in the Late Latin (Vulgate) and modern languages) to translate the Hebrew akhālīm, akhālōth, of which the proper representative is Greek ἀγάλλοχον, New Latin agallochum, English agalloch, q. v., the fragrant resin or wood which was called in later Greek ξυλαλόη, whence in New Latin (transposed) aloëxylon, and (translated) lignum aloes, French bois d'aloès, literally wood of the aloe, in English wood-aloes and aloes-wood. The form aloes, as singular, is due to the Middle Latin sing, aloes, and in part, perhaps, to the L. genitive aloes in lignum aloes, English lign-aloes, q. v. In the earliest English (Anglo-Saxon) use the reference is usually to the agallochum, but it is often difficult to tell which meaning is intended, and even in modern writers the difference is often ignored.
 

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