Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous trees of the natural order Hamamelideæ distinguished by monœcious flowers without petals, growing in heads and surrounded by an involucre of four bracts.
- noun [lowercase] A tree of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit.
Liquidambar styraciflua is the North Americansweet qum , andLiquidambar Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. - noun The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is
liquid storax .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Hamamelidaceae — thesweetgum trees .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any tree of the genus Liquidambar
- noun aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree
- noun sweet gum
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Examples
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See my own experiments upon the applicability of the leaves as a substitute for oak bark, under "Liquidambar," sweet-gum.
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See "Liquidambar," sweet-gum, for detail of experiments.
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The southern and western zones are also subject to the uncontrolled extraction of precious woods such as mahogany Swietenia macrophyla, Liquidambar styraciflua and palm Roystonea donlapiana. 25% of the southern end of the Reserve was said to have been deforested by 1992 and COHDEFOR itself lost credibility when locals were penalized for cutting trees but powerful logging interests were permitted a sawmill within the reserve.
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Species of southern distribution, such as sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), river birch (Betula nigra), Spanish oak (Quercus falcata), and red mulberry (Moros rubra) have reached or are reaching their northern limits.
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We also found a white blooming tree that smelled precisely like styrax Liquidambar orientalis.
Week of Teaching Ayala Sender 2009
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We also found a white blooming tree that smelled precisely like styrax Liquidambar orientalis.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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So the tree of life is a sweetgum tree Liquidambar styraciflua?
Into the floodway. Ann Althouse 2009
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The Sütçüler Sığla Ormanı Nature Reserve is dedicated to the conservation of the oriental sweet gum (Liquidambar orientalis), a narrow endemic tree species which occurs as a riverine community along the Karacaören stream.
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests 2008
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A number of trees are important flagships, including the cedars (such as the famous cedar of Lebanon, Cedrus libani, which has been exploited since the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent); the argan tree (Argania spinosa), a species in the Souss region of southwest Morocco; oriental sweet gum (Liquidambar orientalis); and Cretan date palm (Phoenix theophrasti) in Greece and western Turkey.
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Savanna-like areas occur on poorly drained soils and contain scattered individuals of longleaf and loblolly pine along with tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) and magnolia (Magnolia virginiana).
Piney Woods forests 2008
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