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Lignum

noun
1.
Woody tissue.



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"Lignum" Quotes from Famous Books



... a fight in the Park, with Bill Rice, about a certain lignum-vitae peg-top, of which The Boy was very fond, and which Bill Rice kicked into the fountain. The Boy got mad, which was wrong and foolish of The Boy; and The Boy, also, got licked. And The Boy never ...
— A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs • Laurence Hutton
... are as large or larger than our oaks in England, and grow a good deal like them, and yield a reddish gum; the wood itself is heavy, hard, and black like Lignum vitae." ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Lignum" :   ligneous plant, woody plant, plant tissue


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