What is the meaning of lignum vitae?

noun

  • Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
  • 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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