sweet gum

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

Cherokee: ᏥᎳᎷ (tsilalu) Czech: ambroň Danish: ambratræ n Finnish: ambrapuu (fi) German: Amberbäume (de) Japanese: フウ (ja) (fuu) Latin: liquidambar

Mandarin: 枫香树 (zh) (fēngxiāngshù) Nahuatl: ocotzocuahuitl, xōchiocotzocuahuitl 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