NOUN
- hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
- small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin
How To Use lignum vitae In A Sentence
- The site of the settlement is on the right or northern bank behind the projection, a slip of morass backed by swamps and thick growths, chiefly bombax, palm and acacia, lignum vitae, the mammee-apple and the cork-tree, palmyra, pandanus, and groves of papyrus. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- The main part of the frame is constructed from lignum vitae and there are inlays of ebony, amboyna burl and desert ironwood. A Whole Lotta Nothing
- The ones I missed right off the bat were the swallow-tailed butterflies (the big yellow and black ones that used to be everywhere), the long-tailed hummingbird and Lignum Vitae trees.