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Sweet gum

noun

Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture. Synonyms: hazelwood, red gum, satin walnut.

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree. Synonym: liquidambar.

A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap. Synonyms: American sweet gum, bilsted, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum tree.

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"Sweet gum" Quotes from Famous Books

... deep, then turned out and laid on the highest shelf in the lumber house to await molding time. Cakes of beeswax were kept in the Jackson press, so children, white and black, could not take bites for chewing. It ranked next to native sweet gum for such uses—but Mammy felt it had much better be saved to mix with the tallow at melting time. It made the candles much firmer, also bettered their light, and moreover changed the tallow hue to an agreeable very pale yellow. ...

— Dishes & Beverages of the Old South • Martha McCulloch Williams

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