Lignum is Latin for
wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of ligni ...
and may refer to:
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Gmelina lignum-vitreum'', plant endemic to New Caledonia
* Lignum, common name of ''
Muehlenbeckia florulenta'', plant native to inland Australia
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Lignum Crucis
The True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was said to have been crucified, particularly as an object of religious veneration. There are no early accounts that the apostles or early Christians preserved the physical cross themselves, although ...
, remnants of the True Cross
* Lignum Ltd, see
John C. Kerr
John "Jake" Custance Kerr, (born September 21, 1944) is a Canadian business executive. He is the former chair and CEO of Lignum Ltd., one of Canada's largest privately held forest product companies.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he rece ...
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Lignum vitae
Lignum vitae () is a wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, from trees of the genus '' Guaiacum''. The trees are indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America (e.g: Co ...
, trade wood from trees of the genus ''Guaiacum''
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Lignumvitae Key, island in the Florida Keys
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Vitex lignum-vitae'', Australian rainforest tree
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Lignum, Virginia
Lignum is an unincorporated community in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Lignum is located on Virginia State Route 3 east-southeast of Culpeper. Lignum has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that prov ...
, unincorporated community in the United States
See also
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Lignin
Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants. Lignins are particularly important in the formation of cell walls, especially in wood and bark, because they lend rigidity ...
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