LIQUIDAMBAR
\lˈɪkwɪdˌambɑː], \lˈɪkwɪdˌambɑː], \l_ˈɪ_k_w_ɪ_d_ˌa_m_b_ɑː]\
Definitions of LIQUIDAMBAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
By Oddity Software
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The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
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A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
By Noah Webster.
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lik'wid-am-bar, n. a genus of balsamiferous trees of the witch-hazel family (Hamamelidaceæ), native to Mexico and the United States. [L. liquidus, liquid, Low L. ambar, amber.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] A genus of trees of the Hamamelaceae. The L. orientalis furnishes storax. L. styraciflua, sweet gum tree of North America, furnishes sweet gum, gum-wax, or L., a balsamic syrupy liquid used like storax and balsam of Tolu.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A genus of trees of the Hamamelideae.
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Liquid amber (or liquidamber); the sweet gum or balsamic product of Liquidambar styraciflua, known also as American I. It is aromatic and stimulant, is considered styptic, and is often substituted for the balsams of Peru and Tolu, as well as for liquid storax, with which it has been confounded by many authors. The term l. is sometimes applied to the products of L. orientale and L. altingiana.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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