aloe
noun
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
aloetic
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a word derived from
aloe.
Example Sentences
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There the Hig, an aloetic plant with a point so hard and sharp that horses cannot cross ground where it grows, stood in bunches like the largest and stiffest of rushes.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Continued diarrhœa and the action of strong purgative medicines, particularly the aloetic, are dangerous.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
The terrier was bled, placed in a warm bath, and an aloetic ball, with calomel, administered.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
An infusion of digitalis, with twenty times the quantity of tepid water, was employed as a collyrium, and an aloetic ball administered.
From The Dog by William Youatt
