guaiac wood

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   heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes

   Synonymsguaiacum wood

   Broaderwood

Questions about guaiac wood

What does guaiac wood mean?

guaiac wood means "heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes".

What is another word for guaiac wood?

Close synonyms include guaiacum wood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guaiac wood a common word?

guaiac wood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.