Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers;
found chiefly in Africa;
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.
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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.
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3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of
aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but
syntactically singular.] AS
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American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.
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WordNet (r) 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
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
ALOE
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