It is found by experience to be far better and of more vses then the wood which is called Guaiacum, or Lignum vitæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference
It is found by experience to bee farre better and of more vses then the wood which is called Guaiacum, or Lignum vitæ. From Wordnik.com. [A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia] Reference
Phyllostylon brasiliense, Albizzia cubana and Guaiacum officinale. From Wordnik.com. [Cuban cactus scrub] Reference
Cephalocereus maxonii, Nyctocereus guatemalensis, and Guaiacum santum. From Wordnik.com. [Motagua Valley thornscrub] Reference
Thei haue greate plenty of Hebenum, a woode muche like Guaiacum, and of Siliquastrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Some of the characteristic species are boxwood (Phyllostylon brasiliensis), lignum vitae (Guaiacum sanctum) and Haematoxylum brasiletto. From Wordnik.com. [Central American dry forests] Reference
Selective felling has affected mahogany Swietenia macrophylla, red cedar Cedrela odorata, white cedar Simarouba glauca, Cordia dodecandra, Guaiacum sanctum, Metopium brownei and Thrinax radiata. From Wordnik.com. [Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico] Reference
Examples of trees are Bucida spinosa (júcaro espinoso), Conella winteriana (cúrbana), Guaiacum sanctum (guayacán), Gymnanthes lucidus (yaití), Hypelate trifoliata (cerillo), Lysiloma bahamense (soplillo), Metopium toxiferum (guao de costa), Bursera simaruba (almácigo), Hymenea torrei (caguairán amarillo) and Coccoloba diversifolia. From Wordnik.com. [Cuban dry forests] Reference
Vegetation consists primarily of bayahonda (Prosopis juliflora), cambrón (Acacia macracantha), guayacán (Guaiacum officinale), almácigo (Bursera simarouba), baitoa (Phyllostylon brasiliensis), and spiny shrubs (cactáceas) such as the guazábara (Cylindropuntia caribaea), cayucos (Pilosocereus polygonus), melón espinoso (Melocactus lemairei), alpargata (Opuntia moniliformes) and bombillito (Neomammillaria prolifera). From Wordnik.com. [Enriquillo wetlands] Reference
Likewise Guaiacum or Lignum Sanctum; Lignum Aloes, or. From Wordnik.com. [Bucaniers of America:] Reference
He began by placing in a different and larger mortar several handfuls of dried or fresh leaves of six plants: aloe (Aloe vera), guaiac (Guaiacum officinale), cèdre (Cedrela odorata), bois ca-ca (Capparis cynophyllophora), bois chandelle (Amyris maritima) and cadavre gâté (Capparis sp.). From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
(Dioscorea alata), copei (Clusia alba), guayacan (Guaiacum officinale), guajaba (Psidium pyriferum), guanavano (Anona muricata), mani (Arachis hypogaea), guama (Inga), henequen (was supposed from the erroneous accounts of the first travellers to be an herb with which the Haitians used to cut metals; it means now every kind of strong thread), hicaco. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
(Dioscorea alata), copei (Clusia alba), guayacan (Guaiacum officinale), guajaba (Psidium pyriferum), guanavano (Anona muricata), mani (Arachis hypogaea), guama (Inga), henequen (was supposed from the erroneous accounts of the first travellers to be an herb with which the Haitians used to cut metals; it means now every kind of strong thread), hicaco (Chrysobalanus icaco), maghei. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
(g) = Action of Guaiacum. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
See Limb, Saving a. Guaiacum. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Guaiacum genus. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Guaiacum. From Wordnik.com. [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference
A woode muche like Guaiacum, and of Siliquastrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference
Guaiacum, iii. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Guaiacum, substitute for, 111, 137. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The small fragments of dry forest that remain contain species that are endangered and at risk of extinction such as black laurel (Cordia gerascanthum), "cristobal" Platymiscium parviflorum and P. pinnatum, "Tempisque" Syderoxylon capiri, Swietenia humilis and mahogany (S. macrophylla), "lignum vitae" (Guaiacum sanctum), "cocobolo" Dalbergia retusa, "ronrón" Astronium graveolens. From Wordnik.com. [Central American dry forests] Reference
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