Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun liquidambar

3 senses of liquidambar

Sense 1
sweet gum, liquidambar -- (aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree)
       => gum -- (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)

Sense 2
liquidambar -- (any tree of the genus Liquidambar)
       => gum tree, gum -- (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)

Sense 3
genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar -- (sweet gum)
       => plant genus -- (a genus of plants)