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Webster 1913 Edition

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(lĭg′nŭm rō′dĭ-ŭm)

[NL., fr. L.

lignum

wood + Gr.

ῥόδον

a rose.]

(Bot.)

The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of

Rhodorhiza

from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian

Amyris balsamifera