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Definition of Storax

Storax
Storax Sto"rax, n. [L. storax, styrax, Gr. ?. Cf. Styrax.] Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant. Note: A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax. Cf. Liquidambar.

Meaning of Storax from wikipedia

- Storax (Latin: storax; Gr****: στύραξ, stúrax), often commercially sold as styrax, is a natural fragrant resin isolated from the wounded bark of Liquidambar...
- Storax" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Operation Storax...
- Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of...
- American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood,...
- Styrax (common names storax or snowbell) is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm...
- sweetgum (star gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, styrax or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15...
- and storax resin. The U.S. Navy stated that Compound Tincture of Benzoin was composed of the alcohol-souluble principles from benzoin, aloes, storax, and...
- sweet storax, [in antiquity Styrax was referred to as Storax] and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle". Either myrrh was treated with storax or...
- benjoin, based on Arabic lubānjāwī ‘incense of Java’.) Benzoin is also called storax, not to be confused with the balsam of the same name obtained from the Hamamelidaceae...
- increasing to around 35 million tonnes by 2018. Styrene is named after storax balsam (often commercially sold as styrax), the resin of Liquidambar trees...