lignum vitae

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

• hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Guaiacum officinale , guaiac , guaiacum