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storax

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sto=rax

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun storax has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

storaxn. [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.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

storax, n.
1 a a fragrant resin, obtained from the tree Styrax officinalis and formerly used in perfume. b this tree.
2 (in full Levant or liquid storax) a balsam obtained from the tree Liquidambar orientalis.

Etymology
L f. Gk, var. of STYRAX
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