Guiacum vs. Guaiacum

Guiacumnoun

alternative form of guaiacum

Guiacumnoun

Same as Guaiacum.

Guaiacumnoun

Any of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas.

Guaiacumnoun

The wood or resin of this tree.

Guaiacumnoun

A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

Guaiacumnoun

The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

Guaiacumnoun

medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree

Guaiacumnoun

hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum

Guaiacumnoun

small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America

Guaiacum

Guaiacum (), sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of slow-growing shrubs and trees, reaching a height of approximately 20 m (66 ft) but usually less than half of that.