Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lignum-vitæ, Guaiaceum officinale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Lignum-vitæ.
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- noun archaic
lignum vitae
Etymologies
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pock + wood, as formerly used to treat pocks.
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