styrax treen. a tree of the genus Styrax, esp. S. officinalis.
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 497 Not farre from thence there grow great plenty of Styrax [printed Styrap] trees.
1767 J. AbercrombieEvery Man his Own Gardener (1805) 685/1Styrax-tree, officinal.