Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
agallochum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A soft, resinous wood (
Aquilaria Agallocha ) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called alsoagalwood andaloes wood . The name is also given to some other species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The soft,
aromatic ,resinous wood of Aquilaria malaccensis (formerly Aquilaria agallocha).
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, of Eastern origin.
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