sweet gum

See also: sweetgum

English

Alternative forms

• sweetgum, sweet-gum

Noun

sweet gum (plural sweet gums)

1. Any of several Oriental and American trees the genus Liquidambar, having brilliant autumn coloration; their wood is used for furniture, wood pulp and plywood.

   Hypernyms: gum, gum tree < tree < plant < organism

   Coordinate term: black gum

   1. Liquidambar styraciflua, the sweet gum tree.

Derived terms

• American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
• Chang's sweetgum (Liquidambar acalycina)
• Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
• Formosan sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
• oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis)
• Turkish sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis)

Translations

any tree of the genus Liquidambar

• Arabic: عَنْبَر دَمَّاع m (ʕanbar dammāʕ), مَيْعَة سَائِلَة f (mayʕa(t) sāʔila), لِيْكِيْدَنْبَار (liykiydanbār)
• Catalan: liquidàmbar m
• Cherokee: ᏥᎳᎷ (tsilalu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楓香樹 / 枫香树 (zh) (fēngxiāngshù)

• Czech: ambroň
• Danish: ambratræ n
• Finnish: ambrapuu (fi)
• French: liquidambar (fr) m, copalme (fr) m
• German: Amberbäume (de)
• Greek: υγράμβαρη f (ygrámvari)

  Ancient Greek: στύραξ (stúrax)

• Japanese: フウ (ja) (fū)
• Latin: styrax, storax
• Nahuatl: ocotzocuahuitl, xochiocotzoquahuitl (nah)
• Polish: ambrowiec (pl) m, ambra (pl) f
• Portuguese: liquidâmbar m
• Russian: ликвида́мбар (ru) m (likvidámbar)
• Spanish: liquidámbar (es)
• Turkish: sığla ağacı (tr), sığla (tr)

Further reading

• sweet gum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Liquidambar on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Liquidambar on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons