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STORAX
storax
(noun) a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
storax (countable and uncountable, plural storaxes)
Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.
The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sto"rax, n. Etym: [L. storax, styrax, Gr. Styrax.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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