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guaiac wood

noun

heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes

• Syn: ↑guaiacum wood

• Hypernyms: ↑wood

• Substance Holonyms: ↑palo santo, ↑Bulnesia sarmienti

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noun also guaiacum wood

1. : the heartwood of a palo santo (Bulnesia sarmienti) that yields an oil having an odor of tea or violets and used especially as a fixative in perfumery

2. : the palo santo that yields guaiac wood

Useful english dictionary. 2012.