guaiac wood

noun

variants or less commonly guaiacum wood

1

: the heartwood of a palo santo (Bulnesia sarmienti) that yields an oil having an odor of tea or violets and used especially as a fixative in perfumery

2

: the palo santo that yields guaiac wood

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