Definition of American sweet gum

1. Noun. A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap.

Exact synonyms: Bilsted, Liquidambar Styraciflua, Red Gum, Sweet Gum, Sweet Gum Tree
Group relationships: Genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar
Generic synonyms: Liquidambar
Terms within: Liquidambar, Sweet Gum

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Sweet Gum

American rock brake
American sable
American saddle horse
American shrew mole
American sign language
American smelt
American smokewood
American smooth dogfish
American spelling
American spellings
American spicebush
American spikenard
American state
American sweet chestnut
American sweet gum (current term)
American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula
American toad
American trypanosomiasis
American turkey oak
American twinflower
American wall fern
American water ouzel
American water shrew
American water spaniel
American watercress
American white birch

Literary usage of American sweet gum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine by New York Academy of Medicine (1897)
"Care should be taken to use the proper gum, as above indicated, which is the American "sweet gum;" and not the gum from either the Styrax officinale L., ..."

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