ALOE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Aloe

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈælˌoʊ/ Listen

noun

aloe n. (pl. aloes)

pl. The wood of the agalloch. (Obs.)

(Bot.) (capitalized) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. (Plural in form but syntactically singular.)

American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

See images of 'Aloe'

Etymology of 'Aloe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Aloe" Quotes from Famous Books

... ALOE, a genus of succulent plants embracing 200 species, the majority natives of S. Africa, valuable in medicine, in particular a purgative from the juice of the leaves ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... necessarily always relieved against dark hollows, and this lustre makes them much clearer and brighter than if they were of dead green. In that lustre—and it is characteristic of them—they differ wholly from the dead, aloe-like texture of the pineapple leaf; and remind me, as I look at them closely, a little of some conditions of chaff, as on heads of wheat after being threshed. I will hunt down that clue presently; meantime there is something else to be noticed ...

— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

... but were much too well-bred to ask a question which they felt would be painful; so they sought to attain the desired end by a system of ingenious traps. The future Member for Manchester chanced in a lucky hour to find in his "Book of Useful Knowledge" the tradition that the aloe flowers only once in a hundred years. He instantly saw his opportunity, and accosting the maid with winning air and wheedling accent, asked insinuatingly, "Dunn, have you often ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... that was sufficient. The Levantine waiting near the entrance drew the tent-folds aside and signed to him to enter. Another moment, and he was in the presence of her mistress, in that dim, amber light from the standing candelabra, in that heavy, soft-scented air perfumed from the aloe-wood burning in a brazier, through which he saw, half blinded at first coming from the darkness without, that face which subdued and dazzled even the antagonism and ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... erected around, beheld seated within those mansions those lions among kings who were all endued with the energy of great souls. And those exalted sovereigns were all adorned with the fragrant paste of the black aloe. Of great liberality, they were all devoted to Brahma and they protected their kingdoms against all foes. And for their own good deeds they were loved by ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - Translated into English Prose - Adi Parva (First Parva, or First Book) • Kisari Mohan Ganguli (Translator)

More quotes...