noun
heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes
• Syn: ↑guaiacum wood
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
• Substance Holonyms: ↑palo santo, ↑Bulnesia sarmienti
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noun also guaiacum wood1. : the heartwood of a palo santo (Bulnesia sarmienti) that yields an oil having an odor of tea or violets and used especially as a fixative in perfumery
2. : the palo santo that yields guaiac wood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.