aloes
/ (ˈæləʊz) /
Also called: aloes wood another name for eaglewood
bitter aloes a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
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How to use aloes in a sentence
The little cottage was shut in on one side by a hedge of aloes and prickly pear and on the other by high cliffs and precipices.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah ReedImmediately around are sterile rocks, some many hundred feet high, some with aloes growing from the fissures.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah Reedaloes have the peculiarity that they are the emblems of the most intense bitterness and of the richest and most costly fragrance.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeIn the Bible aloes are mentioned five times, and always with reference to their excellence and costliness.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeIt is the hepatic aloes of most continental writers, and said to be the of Dioscorides.
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