noun. Wood, as contrasted with soft tissues or with bark; that part of exogenous plants which comprises the alburnum and the duramen.

noun. A contraction for lignum-vitæ: applied in Australia to several species of trees because of their tough and hard wood. See the Australian species mentioned under lignum-vitæ.

noun. Any species of the wiry plants of the genus Polygonum.

noun. woody tissue

"These are the same batch of balls as used hitherto but the overhead conditions are different, with the suffocating low cloud of St John's Wood and the humidity of Trent Bridge replaced by a buffeting cross-wind that eventually forced the umpires to call for the heavy lignum vitae bails."

lignum crucis  

plant tissue  

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