Guaiacum officinale

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Guaiacum officinale - 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 resinlignum vitaegenus Guaiacum, Guaiacum - small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical Americaguaiac, lignum vitae, guaiacum - hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacumguaiacum - medicinal resin from the lignum vitae treeangiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary