Aloe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The wood of the agalloch.

II. Aloe ·noun The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.

III. Aloe ·noun 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.

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