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guaic

guaic is the misspelling of guaiac.

Meaning of guaiac

Noun

guaiac (countable and uncountable, plural guaiacs)

  1. A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.
  2. Guaiacum (tree, wood or resin of the guaiacum tree)
  3. Guaiacol.
  4. Oil of guaiac, a fragrance ingredient used in soap and perfumery distilled from the palo santo tree.

Questions about guaic

What is guaic the misspelling of?
Guaic is the misspelling of guaiac.

Words near guaic in the dictionary

  1. guaiapate
  2. Guaiatecas cypress
  3. guaiazulene
  4. guaibasaurid
  5. guaibasaurids
  6. guaic
  7. Guaicurian
  8. Guaicuru
  9. Guaicuruan
  10. guaietolin
  11. guaifenesin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guaic (page history and authors); guaiac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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