Sweet Gum Synonyms

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. satin walnut
  2. liquidambar
  3. hazelwood
  4. red-gum
A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sweet-gum-tree
  2. bilsted
  3. red-gum
  4. American sweet gum
  5. liquidambar-styraciflua

Sweet Gum Sentence Examples

  • Several other pines are found, and among the less important timber trees are black spruce, Carolina balsam, beeches, ashes, sycamore or button wood, sweet gum and lindens.

  • On the Coastal Plain the cypress grows in the Dismal Swamp, river birch along the streams, and sweet gum and black gum in swampy woods.

  • The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.

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