Aloes

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A drug, the inspissated juice of several species of aloe.
  • The fragrant resin or wood of the agallochum; lign-aloes; aloes-wood; wood-aloes: the usual meaning in the Bible. See agallochum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as aloe{3}.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Plural form of aloe.
  • noun. The resin of the trees Aquilaria agallocha or Aquilaria malaccensis, known for their fragrant odour.
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  • noun. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe