Lignum
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Lignum is Latin for wood
and may refer to:
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...
and may refer to:
- Gmelina lignum-vitreumGmelina lignum-vitreumGmelina lignum-vitreum is a species of plant in the Lamiaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia.-References:* Jaffré, T. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
, plant endemic to New Caledonia - Lignum, common name of Muehlenbeckia florulentaMuehlenbeckia florulentaMuehlenbeckia florulenta, commonly known as Tangled Lignum or often simply Lignum, is a plant native to inland Australia. It is associated with wetland habitats, especially those in arid and semiarid regions subject to cycles of intermittent flooding and drying out...
, plant native to inland Australia - Lignum Crucis, remnants of the True Cross
- Lignum Ltd, see John C. KerrJohn C. KerrJohn Custance Kerr, is a Canadian executive. He is the former Chair and CEO of Lignum Ltd., one of Canada’s largest privately held forest product companies....
- Lignum vitaeLignum vitaeLignum vitae is a trade wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as pockenholz, from trees of the genus Guaiacum. This wood was once very important for applications requiring a material with its extraordinary combination of strength, toughness and density...
, trade wood from trees of the genus Guaiacum - Lignumvitae KeyLignumvitae KeyLignumvitae Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys.It is located due north of, and less than one mile from the easternmost tip of Lower Matecumbe Key....
, island in the Florida Keys - Vitex lignum-vitaeVitex lignum-vitaeVitex lignum-vitae known in Australia as Yellow Hollywood or "lignum-vitae" is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. The natural range of distribution is in dry, sub-tropical or tropical rainforest from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at the northern most tip of...
, Australian rainforest tree