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Definition: Aloe |
AloeNoun1. Succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aloe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Aloe \Al"oe\ ([a^]l"n[-o]), noun; plural Aloes(-[=o]z). [Latin alo["e], Greek 'alo`h, aloe: compare to Old French aloe, French alo[`e]s.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A genus of the family Liliaceae containing anthraquinone glycosides such as aloin-emodin or aloe-emodin (emodin). (references) |
Literature | Aloe A Hebrew word, Greek aloe. A very bitter plant; hence the proverb, Plus aloes quam mellis habet , "(Life) has more bitters than sweets." The French say, "La côte d'Adam contient plus d'aloès que de miel," where côte d'Adam, of course, means woman or one's wife. Socotrine Aloes came originally from the island called Socotra, in the Indian Ocean. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aloe, a genus of plants belonging to the order Liliaceae, with about 90 species growing in the dry parts of Africa, especially Cape Colony, and in the mountains of tropical Africa. They are succulent plants. Members of the closely allied genera Gasteria and Haworthia, with a similar mode of growth, are also cultivated and popularly known as aloes. The plants are apparently stemless, bearing a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves, or have a shorter or longer (sometimes branched) stem, along which, or towards the end of which and its branches, the generally fleshy leaves are borne. They are cultivated as ornamental plants, especially in public buildings and gardens, for their stiff, rugged habit. The leaves are generally lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin, but vary in colour from grey to bright green and are sometimes striped or mottled. The rather small tubular yellow or red flowers are borne on simple or branched leafless stems and are generally densely clustered. The juice of the leaves of certain species yields aloes (see below). In some cases, as in Aloe venenosa, the juice is poisonous. The plant called American aloe, Agave americana, belongs to a different order, Amaryllidaceae.
Aloes is a medicinal substance used as a purgative and produced from various species of aloe, such as A. vera, vulgaris, socotrina, chinensis, and perryi. Several kinds of aloes are distinguished in commerce--Barbadoes, Socotrine, hepatic, Indian, and Cape aloes. The first two are those commonly used for medicinal purposes. Aloes is the expressed juice of the leaves of the plant. When the leaves are cut the juice flows out and is collected and evaporated. After the juice has been obtained, the leaves are sometimes boiled, to yield an inferior kind of aloes.
From these plants active principles termed aloins are extracted by water. According to W. A. Shenstone, two classes are to be recognized: (1) nataloins, which yield picric and oxalic acids with nitric acid, and do not give a red coloration with nitric acid; and (2) barbaloins, which yield aloetic acid, C7H2N3Q5; chrysammic acid, C7H2N2O6; picric and oxalic acids with nitric acid, being reddened by this reagent. This second group may be divided into a-barbaloins, obtained from Barbadoes aloes, and reddened in the cold, and b-barbaloins, obtained from Socotrine and Zanzibar aloes, reddened by ordinary nitric acid only when warmed or by fuming acid in the cold. Nataloin, 2C17H13O7.H2O, forms bright yellow scales, melting at 212-222 deg.; barbaloin, C17H18O7, forms yellow prismatic crystals. Aloes also contain a trace of volatile oil, to which its odour is due.
The dose is 2 to 5 grains, that of aloin being 1/2 to 2 grains. Aloes can be absorbed from a broken surface and will then cause purging. When given internally it increases the actual amount as well as the rate of flow of the bile. It hardly affects the small intestine, but markedly stimulates the muscular coat of the large intestine, causing purging in about fifteen hours. There is hardly any increase in the intestinal secretion, the drug being emphatically not a hydragogue cathartic. There is no doubt that its habitual use may be a factor in the formation of haemorrhoids; as in the case of all drugs that act powerfully on the lower part of the intestine, without simultaneously lowering the venous pressure by causing increase of secretion from the bowel. Aloes also tends to increase the menstrual flow and therefore belongs to the group of emmenagogues. Aloin is preferable to aloes for therapeutic purposes, as it causes less, if any, pain. It is a valuable drug in many forms of constipation, as its continual use does not, as a rule, lead to the necessity of enlarging the dose. Its combined action on the bowel and the uterus is of especial value in chlorosis, of which amenorrhoea is an almost constant symptom. The drug is obviously contraindicated in pregnancy and when haemorrhoids are already present. Many well-known patent medicines consist essentially of aloes.
The lign-aloes is quite different from the medicinal aloes. The word is used in the Bible (Numbers 24:6), but as the trees usually supposed to be meant by this word are not native in Syria, it has been suggested that the Septuagint reading in which the word does not occur is to be preferred. Lign-aloe is a corruption of the Latin lignum-aloe, a wood, not a resin. Dioscorides refers to it as agallochon, a wood brought from Arabia or India, which was odoriferous but with an astringent and bitter taste. This may be Aquilaria agallochum, a native of East India and China, which supplies the so-called eagle-wood or aloes-wood, which contains much resin and oil.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ALOE | English | Apple Library for Object Embedding | Computer - (Apple, OpenDoc) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Aloe |
| English words defined with "aloe": aloes ♦ bitter aloes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aloe": VERNONIA BRACTEATA, VERNONIA BRASILILANA, VERNONIA CANESCENS, VERNONIA CINEREA. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aloe" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (Aloe), German (aloe), Italian (Aloe), Latin (acerbity, aloe, aloe plant, bitterness, thickened aloe juice), Manx (aloe ), Romanian (Aloe), Swedish (Aloe), Turkish (Aloe). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Aloe. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "ALOE 3" by A. Carlos Herrera Commentary: "ALOE™." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Chitosan, calcium and aloe are expected to remain the market leaders for the next 2 to 3 years. (references) | |
Previously, the market was dominated by aloe and shark liver products, followed closely by enzyme and calcium products. (references) | ||
Finally, aloe marked the third largest market sector at 128 billion won (US$116 million) or 14.6 percent of the total market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Dominica | Dominica has made some progress, with the export of small quantities of citrus fruits and vegetables and the introduction of coffee, patchouli, aloe vera, cut flowers, and exotic fruits such as mangoes, guavas, and papayas. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aloe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 47.83% of the time. "Aloe" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 47.83% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.48% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "aloe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Aloe | Last name | 130 | 58,794 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "aloe": aloe family ♦ Aloe ferox ♦ aloe juice ♦ aloe vera ♦ American aloe ♦ cape aloe ♦ Century aloe ♦ Cortaid With Aloe [OTC] ♦ Dermtex HC With Aloe ♦ genus Aloe ♦ water aloe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "aloe": aloe-vera, aloe-wood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aloe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aalwyn, aalwee. (various references) | |
Arabic | صبر (forbearance, longanimity, mummification, mummify, patience, sabra, sufferance), الألوه نبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Алое, Столетник. (various references) | |
Czech | Aloe. (various references) | |
Danish | aloe (aloes, Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
Dutch | aloe vera (Barbados aloe), aloë (aloes), a.barbadensis (Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aloo. (various references) | |
Finnish | lääkeaaloe (Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
French | aloès (aloes, Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
German | Aloe (aloes, Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
Greek | αλόη η γνησία (Barbados aloe), αλάς (Barbados aloe), Αλοή. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אהל (aloe-wood, aromatic wood). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Aloé. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pohon gaharu. (various references) | |
Irish | aló. (various references) | |
Italian | aloe (aloes, Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沈香 , アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegretto, allegro, allergen, allergy, alloc, allocate, allocation, aloha, aloha shirt, anchor, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アロエ , じんこう (artificial, artificiality, common talk, human skill, human work, manmade, population). (various references) | |
Korean | 알로에. (various references) | |
Manx | aloe. (various references) | |
Papiamen | aloé, sentebibu, halué, álue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aloeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aloés (aloes). (various references) | |
Romanian | Aloe. (various references) | |
Russian | Алоэ, алоэ (aloes). (various references) | |
Sepedi | sekgopha. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aloja. (various references) | |
Shona | gavakava (aloe plant). (various references) | |
Spanish | Áloe. (various references) | |
Swedish | aloe (Barbados aloe). (various references) | |
Turkish | Aloe, Sarısabır, Ödağacı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Алое, Гіркий Досвід, Сабур. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aloe, Aloe barbadensis, Aloe vera. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dierragka thn koithn mou krokw ton de oikon mou kinnamwmw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aspersi cubile meum murra et aloe et cinnamomo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | I ha sprengd my ligging place with myrre, and aloes, and canell. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Gipahumotan ko na ang akong higdaanan. Sa mirra, aloes ug sinamomo; |
| Croatian | svoj sam krevet namirisala smirnom, alojem i cimetom. |
| Danish | jeg har stænket min Seng med Myrra, med Aloe og med Kanelbark; |
| Dutch | Ik heb mijn leger met mirre, aloe en kaneel welriekende gemaakt; |
| Finnish | Vuoteeseeni olen pirskoitellut mirhaa, aloeta ja kanelia. |
| French | J`ai parfumé ma couche De myrrhe, d`aloès et de cinnamome. |
| German | Ich habe mein Lager mit Myrrhe, Aloe und Zimt besprengt. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen fè kabann mwen santi bon. Mwen vide odè flè jasmen, womaren ak kannèl sou li. |
| Hungarian | Beillatoztam ágyamat mirhával, áloessel és fahéjjal. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan sudah kuharumkan dengan wangi-wangian mur, cendana dan kayu manis. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan aku sudah meraksi tempat tidurku dengan mur dan gaharu dan cendana. |
| Maori | Kua ruia e ahau toku moenga ki nga mea whakakakara, ki te maira, ki te aroe, ki te hinamona. |
| Norwegian | Jeg har strødd mitt leie med myrra, aloë og kanel. |
| Portuguese | Já perfumei o meu leito com mirra, aloés e cinamomo. |
| Rumanian | mi-am stropit awternutul cu smirnq, aloe wi scoryiwoarq. |
| Russian | УРБМШОА НПА ОБДХЫЙМБ УНЙТОПА, БМПЕН Й ЛПТЙГЕА; |
| Spanish | He perfumado mi cama con mirra, áloe y canela. |
| Swedish | Jag har bestänkt min bädd med myrra, med aloe och med kanel. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aloe": aloes, aloetic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aloe": beefaloes, buffaloed, buffaloes, cataloes, cattaloes, enhaloed, enhaloes, haloed, haloes, synaloepha, synaloephas. (additional references) | |
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"Aloe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aboe, acoe, adoe, aeol, afoe, agoe, ailo, aioi, ajle, Ajoe, akoe, alape, alau, alaye, albe, Albou, alce, Alcee, alcote, alde, aldo, aleay, aleef, aleeg, aleem, alek, aleo, aleu, alge, Alho, aliae, alie, Alieu, Alii, alio, alize, Aljos, Alkem, alle, allek, allev, allne, alloa, alloc, alloe, alloj, allote, allowe, allua, almox, alne, Alnod, alo, aloa, alob, aloc, alod, aloey, alof, alofe, alog, aloge, aloh, alohe, aloi, alol, alom, alome, alon, aloo, alop, alope, Alor, alore, alos, Alou, aloua, alov, alox, aloy, Alpe, alsoe, alte, altoe, alu, alua, aluet, aluh, aluo, Alve, alxe, alye, amlee, amoe, anle, anlo, Aoe, aoet, Aoew, aoi, aol, aole, aoli, aolu, Arlo, aroe, asoe, asoi, atoe, aulo, aulos, avoe, awoe, azoe, caloe, eleo, eloe, Elohe, eloqe, Eole, galoe, Ileo, iole, Kaloi, Laou, lauloa, maloe, oloe, paleo, Raloo, Ulo, uloa, uloe, waloe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aloe" (pronounced a"lō') |
| 3 | a" l ō' | fallow. |
| 2 | -l ō' | afterglow, airglow, Barlow, bordello, buffalo, bungalow, Hollo, inflow, kilo, outflow, overflow, piccolo, solo, Tupelo, Whitlow, willow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: olea. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-o" | |
-1 letter: ale, lea, ole. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, el, la, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o" | |
+1 letter: aloes, alone, amole, anole, azole, haole, laevo, zoeal. | |
+2 letters: albedo, alcove, aldose, amoles, anoles, areola, areole, aslope, azoles, boatel, boreal, cajole, coaled, coaler, coeval, colead, doable, eidola, elodea, enhalo, eolian, etalon, florae, foaled, foetal, folate, foveal, galore, gaoled, gaoler, gelato, goaled, goalie, haloed, haloes, haoles, lanose, legato, loaded, loader, loafed, loafer, loamed, loaned, loaner, loathe, loaves, lobate, locale, locate, loreal, lovage, morale, obelia, oblate, oleate, oracle, ordeal, osteal, parole, pedalo, pelota, poleax, recoal, reload, reloan, sleazo, solace, solate, tolane, zealot. | |
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