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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Guaiac \Gua"iac\, a. [See {Guaiacum}.] Pertaining to or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: guaiac n : hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum [syn: {lignum vitae}, {guaiacum}]
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