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liquidambar|lɪkwɪˈdæmbə(r)|
Also liquid amber.
[a. mod.L. liquidambar (in Renou 1615), app. irreg. f. L. liquid-us liquid + med.L. ambar amber.]
1. A resinous gum which exudes from the bark of the tree Liquidambar styraciflua. Called also copalm balsam.
1598Florio, Liquidambro, liquid amber. 1616Bullokar, Liquid Amber. A sweete Rosin brought from the West Indies, comfortable to the braine. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. iv. ii. ix. 673 Liquid Amber is a certain oleous Rosine..called from its suaveolence, Liquid Amber, or Oyl of Amber [orig. Liquidambar dictum,..quasi ambarum liquidum]. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Amber, Liquid Amber, is a kind of native balsam, or resin, like turpentine; of a pleasant smell, somewhat like ambergris.
2. Bot. A genus of trees, family Hamamelideæ, consisting of two species, L. orientalis of Asia Minor (which yields the balsam known as liquid storax), and L. styraciflua, the Sweet-gum Tree of N. America; a tree of this genus.
1843Prescott Mexico (1854) 2 The rich foliage of the liquid-amber tree. 1846W. D. Cooley Maritime & Inl. Discov. III. v. xviii. 273 The eastern slope of the Cordilleras of Mexico, covered with thick forests of liquidambar. 1881Gard. Chron. No. 412. 652 Some young Liquidambars. 1884E. Eggleston in Century Mag. Jan. 446/2 Carts with truck wheels sawed from the liquid-amber or sweet-gum tree. |