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LIQUIDAMBAR

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Liquidambar mean? 

LIQUIDAMBAR (noun)
  The noun LIQUIDAMBAR has 3 senses:

1. aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree
2. any tree of the genus Liquidambar
3. sweet gum

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDAMBAR used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIQUIDAMBAR (noun)


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Meaning:

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

liquidambar; sweet gum

Hypernyms ("liquidambar" is a kind of...):

gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)

Holonyms ("liquidambar" is a substance of...):

American sweet gum; bilsted; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum; sweet gum tree (a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap)


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Meaning:

Any tree of the genus Liquidambar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("liquidambar" is a kind of...):

gum; gum tree (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liquidambar"):

American sweet gum; bilsted; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum; sweet gum tree (a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap)

Holonyms ("liquidambar" is a member of...):

genus Liquidambar; Liquidambar (sweet gum)


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Meaning:

Sweet gum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Liquidambar; Liquidambar

Hypernyms ("Liquidambar" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Liquidambar"):

liquidambar (any tree of the genus Liquidambar)

American sweet gum; bilsted; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum; sweet gum tree (a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap)

Holonyms ("Liquidambar" is a member of...):

family Hamamelidaceae; Hamamelidaceae; witch-hazel family (comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera)


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