Aloe

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  aloe \al"oe\ ([a^]l"n[-o]), n.; pl. {Aloes} ([a^]l"[=o]z). [L.
     alo["e], Gr. 'alo`h, aloe: cf. OF. aloe, F. alo[`e]s.]
     1. pl. The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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     2. (Bot.) [capitalized] A genus of succulent plants, some


        classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number
        having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous
        plants; from some of which are prepared articles for
        medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
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     3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of
        aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but
        syntactically singular.] AS
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     {American aloe}, {Century aloe}, the agave. See {Agave}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aloe
       n : succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with
           fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found
           chiefly in Africa

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ALOE
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