tolu balsam

1. 1.

   aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups

   Synonymstolubalsam of tolu

   Broaderbalsam

   Narrowerbalsam of Peru

Questions about tolu balsam

What does tolu balsam mean?

tolu balsam means "aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups".

What is another word for tolu balsam?

Close synonyms include tolu, balsam of tolu. 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 tolu balsam a common word?

tolu balsam 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.