单词 | lignum vitae |
释义 | lignum vitae (once / 157591 pages) n WORD FAMILY lignum vitae USAGE EXAMPLESMany hard woods, as lignum vitae, are so heavy that they will not float at all. Noyes, William, Wood and Forest(2011) From LA to Edinburgh Macdonald made at least one other sculpture of Parker, a full-length figure carved from lignum vitae, a dark hardwood. The Guardian(Mar 21, 2010) Still others are lignum vitae, ebony, rosewood, mahogany, cedar, lancewood and many other species. Hall, Arthur D., Cuba—Its Past, Present, and Future(2010) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Guaiacum officinale angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary 2n hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum Syn|Hyper guaiac, guaiacum wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
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