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, of the genus Liquidambar, having brilliant autumn coloration; their wood is used for furniture, woodpulp and plywood
   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

tree

• Catalan: liquidàmbar m
• Cherokee: ᏥᎳᎷ (tsilalu)
• Czech: ambroň
• Danish: ambratræ n
• Finnish: ambrapuu (fi)
• French: liquidambar (fr) m, copalme (fr) m
• German: Amberbäume (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: στύραξ (stúrax)

• Japanese: フウ (ja) (fū)
• Latin: styrax, storax
• Mandarin: 楓香樹／枫香树 (zh) (fēngxiāngshù)
• Nahuatl: ocotzocuahuitl, xōchiocotzocuahuitl
• 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
• Liquidambar on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons