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liquidambar

DEFINITIONS OF: liquidambar

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n any tree of the genus Liquidambar

Types:
American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, bilsted, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree
a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap
Type of:
gum, gum tree
any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

n aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree

Synonyms:
sweet gum
Type of:
gum
any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
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