aloe

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aloe †(resin or wood of) lign-aloes OE.; liliaceous genus of plants with bitter juice, whence is made a drug XIV. OE. al(e)we — L. aloē — Gr. alóē plant and drug. In late ME. reinforced by OF. aloes (mod. aloès) or its source aloēs, g. sg. of L. aloē, as in LIGN-ALOES, whence the frequent use of the word in pl. form.

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