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lign-aloes

lign-aloes noun: agalloch, aloes.

Noun

lign-aloes (plural lign-aloes)

  1. agalloch, aloes
  2. agarwood, trees of the genus Aquilaria, especially the species Aquilaria malaccensis
    • c. 1380 "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Book IV, line 1135ff.
      The woful teeris that they leten falle
      As bittre weren out of teris kynde,
      ffor peyne, as is ligne aloes...
    • As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of Lign-Aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as Cedar trees beside the waters.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:6

Forms of lign-aloes

plurallign-aloes
alternative formlignaloe
alternative formlign aloe
alternative formligne aloes
alternative formlinaloa
alternative formlinaloe

Origin of lign-aloes

Inherited from Middle English, from Middle French lignalöé, from Latin lignum + aloes. Compare lign-. The -s originates in the Latin genitive case, but it seems to have been reinterpreted as an English plural form.

Questions about lign-aloes

What does lign-aloes mean?
Lign-aloes means agalloch, aloes.
What part of speech is lign-aloes?
Lign-aloes is a noun.
What is the plural of lign-aloes?
The plural of lign-aloes is lign-aloes.

Words near lign-aloes in the dictionary

  1. ligiids
  2. liging
  3. ligma
  4. lign aloe
  5. lign-
  6. lign-aloes
  7. lignage
  8. lignages
  9. lignaloe
  10. lignaloes
  11. lignan

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