Lignum vitae is a trade wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as pockholz, from trees of the genus Guaiacum. The trees are indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America and have been an important export crop to Europe since the beginning of the 16th century. The wood was once very important for ...
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• (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships` blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
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Extremely hard, oily, dense, dark brown wood from the West Indies - one of the earliest woods to be imported to Britain before 1650. The wood was made into drinking bowls, pestles and mortars, and similar items; the 18thCclockmakerJohn harrison even used it for the wheels in his early clocks because of its natural lubrication. Lignum vitae was used...
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any of several trees of the genus Guaiacum, of the family Zygophyllaceae, particularly G. officinale, native to the New World tropics.[2 related articles]
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<botany> A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum. ... In New Zealand the Metrosideros buxifolia is called lig...
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Extremely hard, oily, dense, dark brown wood from the West Indies - one of the earliest woods to be imported to Britain before 1650. The wood was made into drinking bowls, pestles and mortars, and similar items; the 18thCclockmakerJohn harrison even used it for the wheels in his early clocks because of its natural lubrication. Lignum vitae was used …...
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Lig'num-vi'tae (-vī'tē)
noun [ Latin , wood of life;
lignum wood +
vita , genitive
vitæ , life.]
(Botany) A tree (
Guaiacum officinale ) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the
guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is v...
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The tropical hardwood the cheeses are made from. It is probably the heaviest wood in the world - it sinks in water (S.G. 1.3). Also it allegedly has some remarkable medicinal properties - have a look at the Lignum Vitae page on the St Barths website.
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[
n] - hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum 2. [n] - small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America
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A very hard wood. Used for machinery bearings that are constantly under water, sheaves of pulley blocks and for purposes where great hardness and strength are required.
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noun hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
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Guaiacum officinale noun small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin
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Lignum Vitae (Guaiacum officinale) Common Name(s): Lignum Vitae Scientific Name: Guaiacum officinale, G. sanctum Distribution: Central America and northern South America Tree Size: 20-30 ft (6-10 m) tall, 1-2 ft (.3-.6 m) trunk diameter Average Dried Weight: 79 lbs/ft
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