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lign aloe

lign aloe is the alternative form of lign-aloes.

Meaning of lign-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...

Forms of lign aloe

plurallign aloes

Questions about lign aloe

What is lign aloe the alternative form of?
Lign aloe is the alternative form of lign-aloes.

Words near lign aloe in the dictionary

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

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