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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
guaiacum is a noun meaning "medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree". It carries 3 recorded senses.
medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for guaiacum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.