Guiacum vs. Guaiacum — What's the Difference?

Alternative form of guaiacum

Guaiacum (), sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of slow-growing shrubs and trees, reaching a height of approximately 20 m (66 ft) but usually less than half of that.

Same as Guaiacum.

Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Guaiacum; a lignum vitae.

The wood of a guaiacum.

A greenish-brown resin obtained from this tree, used medicinally and in varnishes.

Any of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas.

The wood of such trees

The resin of such tree.

A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum officinale or lignum-vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

Medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree

Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum

Small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America