Crossword clues for liquidambar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquidambar \Liq"uid*am`bar\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]d*[a^]m`b[~e]r), n.
(Bot.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and Liquidambar Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
Wiktionary
n. A resinous gum that exudes from the bark of the tree ''Liquidambar styraciflua''
WordNet
n. aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree [syn: sweet gum]
any tree of the genus Liquidambar
Wikipedia
Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (sweet gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae with 15 species. They were formerly often treated in Hamamelidaceae.
Usage examples of "liquidambar".
Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
Once, he pointed to a liquidambar tree, alone in a clearing: 150 feet of brilliant ruby, gold, and deep purple.
They left Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
A flat green lawn was marked by a single, fifty-foot liquidambar tree and nothing else.
Half a block before they came to the house, a big liquidambar tree shadowed the sidewalk from the streetlight nearby.
In Tiriendor, the liquidambars were formed from jewels of light showered from the sunset, and the oaks were hung with balconies of bronze.
No homes visible here, just two-story walls of green eugenia and juniper and red-berried toyon backed by forests of oak, ginkgo, and liquidambar.
The place had a jaillike quality—narrow, silvered windows bolted and barred, the front door a slab of brushed steel, no landscaping other than a single thirsty liquidambar tree which cast spindly shadows on the tar-paper roof.
In the park around the small chateau, built in a Belgian version of the First Empire style, trees from many lands had been assembled by his father and grandfather: drooping spruces from Norway, dark-pillared cypresses from Italy, spreading cedars from Lebanon, trees of heaven from China, fern-leaved gingkos from Japan, lofty tulip-trees and liquidambars from America, and fantastic sylvan forms from islands of the Southern Ocean.