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storax |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Storax \Sto"rax\, n. [L. storax, styrax, Gr ?. Cf {Styrax}.] Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is {liquid storax}, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant. Note: A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax. Cf {Liquidambar}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: storax n : a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax
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