单词 | sweet gum |
释义 | > as lemmassweet gum sweet gum n. (also sweet gum-tree) sweet gum sweet gum n. (also sweet gum-tree) = liquidambar n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > liquidambar tree sweet gum1700 copalm1775 red gum tree1839 liquidambar1843 satin walnut1879 red gum1883 1700 Baltimore Rent Rolls in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1924) 19 367 127 acre Sur[veyed]..begun at a bounded sweet gum. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 95 The sweet Gum-Tree, so call'd, because of the fragrant Gum it yields in the Spring-time, upon Incision of the Bark, or Wood. 1717 Petiveriana iii. 195 Sweet-gum. Because in the Spring it yeilds a fragrant Gum, upon cutting its Bark or Wood, of great use in Tetters, Scurfs, Inflammations, etc. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 148 Liquidambar, Sweet-Gum Tree. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti iii. 43 The trunk of a decayed and fallen sweet-gum. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Liquidambar styraceflua, Copalm Balsam-tree, Sweet Gumtree. 1981 A. Mitchell Gardener's Bk. Trees 101/1 For summer foliage and autumn colours the Sweet gum has few equals. < as lemmas |
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