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

Type of: liquidambar

Part of: genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar

Encyclopedia: American sweet gum