Crossword-Solution: AGALLOCHUM
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| Agallochum | n. | A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. |
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Calambak or eagle wood, the true lignum aloes so highly esteemed in the East as a perfume or incense, is said to be produced by the _Aloexylum agallochum_, Lour.
AGALLOCHUM (a-gal'o-kum), a fragrant wood obtained from _Aloex[)y]lon Agall[)o]chum_, a leguminous tree of Cochin-China, and _Aquil[=a]ria Agall[)o]cha_, a large tree found in north-east Bengal, abounding in resin and an essential oil which yields a perfume used as incense.
The better form is ALGUM.] ALOE, al'[=o], _n._ a genus of plants of considerable medicinal importance, of the 200 species of which as many as 170 are indigenous to the Cape Colony.--The so-called American Aloe is a totally different plant (see AGAVE).--_adj._ AL'OED, planted or shaded with aloes.--The ALOES WOOD of the Bible was the heart-wood of _Aquilaria ovata_ and _Aquilaria Agallochum_, large spreading trees.
Roxburgh's recently read at the Linnean Society, occurs the following observation: "The Portuguese _pao de aguila_ is an undoubted corruption, either of the Arabic aghaluji, or of the Latin agallochum; and it is by a ludicrous mistake that from this corruption has grown the name of lignum aquilæ, whence the genus of the plant now receives its botanic appellation, _aquilaria agallocha._" Roxb.
See in particular Avicenna, who gives an elaborate dissertation on the different kinds of agallochum or xylaloe, found in India, and the modes of preparing it (ii, 2, 733.) See also Serapion (De Simpl.