liquidambar styraciflua

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   a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap

   Synonymssweet gumsweet gum treebilstedred gumAmerican sweet gum

   Broaderliquidambar

   Part ofgenus Liquidambar

Questions about liquidambar styraciflua

What does liquidambar styraciflua mean?

liquidambar styraciflua means "a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap".

What is another word for liquidambar styraciflua?

Close synonyms include sweet gum, sweet gum tree, bilsted, red gum, American sweet gum. 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 styraciflua a common word?

liquidambar styraciflua 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.