Liquidambar Definition

lĭkwĭd-ămbər
noun

Any of a genus (Liquidambar) of trees of the witch hazel family, found in Asia and North America, esp. the sweet gum.

Webster's New World
The balsam from such a tree.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Altingiaceae "” the sweetgum trees, formerly classified as Hamamelidaceae.

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Other Word Forms of Liquidambar

Noun

Singular:
liquidambar
Plural:
liquidambars

Origin of Liquidambar

  • New Latin genus name Latin liquidus liquid liquid Medieval Latin ambar amber amber

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin, from Latin liquidus (“liquid, fluid") + Arabic [script?] (ambar, “amber")

    From Wiktionary

Liquidambar Sentence Examples

  • There were oaks, beeches (scarcely distinguishable from existing species), birches, planes and willows (one closely related to the living Salix candida), laurels, represented by Sassafras and Cinnamomum, magnolias and tulip trees (Liriodendron), myrtles, Liquidambar, Diospyros and ivy.

  • It has preserved its characteristic types, such as Magnolia, Liriodendron, Liquidambar, Torreya, Taxodium and Sequoia.

  • There are two species of Pistacia and four of Liquidambar.

  • The liquidambar and nutmeg may be noticed among the former; the first is one of the most conspicuous trees in Java, on the mountains of the eastern part of which the casuarina, one of the characteristic forms of Australia, is also abundant.

  • Balsam of Tolu, produced by Myroxylon toluiferum, a native of Venezuela and New Granada; balsam of Peru, derived from Myroxylon Pereirae, a native of San Salvador in Central America; Mexican and Brazilian elemi, produced by various species of Icica or "incense trees," and the liquid exudation of an American species of Liquidambar, are all used as incense in America.

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Words Starting With

LLILIQ

Words Ending With

RARBAR

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liquidambar

Words Starting With L and Ending With R

Starts With L & Ends With RStarts With LI & Ends With RStarts With L & Ends With AR

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With L11 Letter Words Ending With R