"Guaiacum" is a word in ENGLISH
The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or
lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It
is much used in medicine.
A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical
America.
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Read the complete definitionFirst; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.
Read the complete definitionA genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed …
Read the complete definitionA genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to …
Read the complete definitionA genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
Read the complete definitionadj. /(NA-)/ far, distant, remote (in space or probability); far from (someone or something). Adayo ti Amerika ditoy Pilipinas. America …
Read the complete definitionIn America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
Read the complete definitionA handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.
Read the complete definitionThe crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.
Read the complete definitionA rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. …
Read the complete definitionThe three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.
Read the complete definitionA magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.
Read the complete definitionOne of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and …
Read the complete definitionA large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the …
Read the complete definitionOne of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.
Read the complete definitionalyansa n alliance. v [C2; b(1)] have an alliance. Ang Amirika gialyansáhan sa Pilipínas, The Philippines had an alliance with …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.
Read the complete definitionadj. /NA-/ covetous, grasping, avaricious, greedy. v. /AG-, MANG-:-EN/ to covet. Dika agameng ti dimo kukua. Don’t covet what is …
Read the complete definitionA native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
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