liquidambar

Other forms of liquidambar

plural

liquidambars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liquidambar

What does liquidambar mean?

liquidambar means "aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liquidambar?

liquidambar has 4 syllables: liq-ui-dam-bar. The stress falls on "ui".

What is another word for liquidambar?

Close synonyms include sweet gum, genus Liquidambar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liquidambar a common word?

liquidambar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.