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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
aloe n 1: succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] AS [1913 Webster] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016) | ||
ALOE Apple Library for Object Embedding (Apple, OpenDoc) | ||
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