Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lignum_vitae

2 senses of lignum vitae

Sense 1
lignum vitae, guaiac, guaiacum -- (hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2
lignum vitae, 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 resin)
       => angiospermous tree, flowering tree -- (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)