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Sweet gum

noun

Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture. Synonyms: hazelwood, red gum, satin walnut.

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree. Synonym: liquidambar.

A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap. Synonyms: American sweet gum, bilsted, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum tree.

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"Sweet gum" Quotes from Famous Books

... {Sweet Gum.} The sweet Gum-Tree, so call'd, because of the fragrant Gum it yields in the Spring-time, upon Incision of the Bark, or Wood. It cures the Herpes and Inflammations; being apply'd to the Morphew and Tettars. 'Tis an extraordinary ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

Words linked to "Sweet gum" : gum, gumwood, genus Liquidambar