balsam of peru

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   dark brown syrupy balsam from the Peruvian balsam tree used especially in dressing wounds and treating certain skin diseases

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Questions about balsam of peru

What does balsam of peru mean?

balsam of peru means "dark brown syrupy balsam from the Peruvian balsam tree used especially in dressing wounds and treating certain skin diseases".

Is balsam of peru a common word?

balsam of peru is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.