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Liquidambar   Listen
noun
Liquidambar  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and Liquidambar Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
2.
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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... (FIGURE 135. Liquidambar europaeum, var. trilobatum, A. Br. (sometimes four- lobed, and more commonly five-lobed). a. Leaf, half natural size. b. Part of same, natural size. c. Fruit, natural size. d. Seed, ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Liquidambar" :   Hamamelidaceae, gum, American sweet gum, red gum, family Hamamelidaceae, bilsted


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