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1. <botany> A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
2. The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.
Alternative forms: guaiac.
Origin: NL, fr. Sp. Guayaco, from native name in Hayti.
(01 Mar 1998)
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