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lignaloe

lignaloe 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 lignaloe

plurallignaloes

Questions about lignaloe

What is lignaloe the alternative form of?
Lignaloe is the alternative form of lign-aloes.

Words near lignaloe in the dictionary

  1. lign aloe
  2. lign-
  3. lign-aloes
  4. lignage
  5. lignages
  6. lignaloe
  7. lignaloes
  8. lignan
  9. lignanamide
  10. lignanamides
  11. lignane

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