lignum vitae
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Guaiacum officinale substance holonym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- angiospermous tree hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Guaiacum member holonym
- lignum vitae substance meronym
- guaiacum substance meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | Guaiacum officinale |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Guaiacum |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | lignum vitae |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | guaiacum |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | angiospermous tree |