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lignum aloes

lignum aloes 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...

Questions about lignum aloes

What is lignum aloes the alternative form of?
Lignum aloes is the alternative form of lign-aloes.

Words near lignum aloes in the dictionary

  1. lignotuber
  2. lignotuberous
  3. lignotubers
  4. lignous
  5. lignum
  6. lignum aloes
  7. lignum nephriticum
  8. lignum rhodium
  9. lignum vitae
  10. lignum vitaes
  11. lignums

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