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Sweet gum

noun

Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture. Synonyms: hazelwood, red gum, satin walnut.

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree. Synonym: liquidambar.

A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap. Synonyms: American sweet gum, bilsted, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum tree.

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... a roof seen above the low underbrush of young pines, holly and sweet gum, was a building of some kind toward which the path turned abruptly. A hundred yards ahead the woods ceased, and Gus knew that beyond were the ever-shifting sand dunes crowned with their short-lived scrub oaks or pines and tufts of beach grass which bordered ...

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Words linked to "Sweet gum" : liquidambar, gum, genus Liquidambar, gumwood