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al·oe (

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1. Any of various chiefly African plants of the genus Aloe, having rosettes of succulent, often spiny-margined leaves and long stalks bearing yellow, orange, or red tubular flowers.

2. See aloe vera.

3. aloes (used with a sing. verb) A laxative drug obtained from the processed juice of a certain species of aloe. Also called bitter aloes.

[Middle English, from Old English aluwe, from Latin alo, from Greek.]

alo·etic (

k) adj.

aloes [ˈæləʊz]

n (functioning as singular)

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) Also called aloes wood another name for eaglewood

(Medicine / Pharmacology)

bitter aloes a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe

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Noun

aloes - a purgative made from the leaves of aloe

bitter aloes

aperient, cathartic, physic, purgative - a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

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The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context

Behind his counter he was a superior being, calmly conscious of special knowledge and worth; outside he was a weak-kneed, purblind, motorman-cursed rambler, with ill-fitting clothes stained with chemicals and smelling of socotrine aloes and valerianate of ammonia.

The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context

Might there not be an irresistible desire to quaff a last, long, breathless draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly all her years of womanhood had been perpetually flavoured.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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