Толковый словарь английского языка - guaiacum
Guaiacum
guaiacum
noun Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish guayaco, from Taino guayacan Date: 1553 any of a genus (Guaiacum) of the caltrop family of tropical American evergreen trees and shrubs having pinnate leaves, usually blue flowers, and capsular fruit, 2. the hard greenish-brown wood of a ~ (especially Guaiacum officinale), a resin with a faint balsamic odor that is obtained from the trunk of two ~s (G. officinale and G. sanctum) and often used as a clinical reagent
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n. 1 any tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to tropical America. 2 (also guaiac) a the hard dense oily timber of some of these, esp. G. officinale. Also called LIGNUM VITAE. b the resin from this used medicinally. Etymology: mod.L f. Sp. guayaco of Haitian orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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