aloes

/ (ˈæləʊz) /

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noun (functioning as singular)

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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Words nearby aloes

Aloadae, load off one's mind, a, alocasia, alodium, aloe, aloes, Aloeus, aloe vera, Alofi, aloft, Alogi

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Example sentences from the Web for aloes

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 Reed
Immediately around are sterile rocks, some many hundred feet high, some with aloes growing from the fissures.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor|Helen Leah Reed
Aloes 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 Ellacombe
In 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 Ellacombe

It is the hepatic aloes of most continental writers, and said to be the of Dioscorides.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley

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