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Definition of liquid storax

liquid 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 liquid storax from wikipedia

- Storax (Latin: storax; Gr****: στύραξ, stúrax), often commercially sold as styrax, is a natural resin isolated from the wounded bark of Liquidambar orientalis...
- volatile liquid from the resin (called storax or styrax (Latin)) of the American sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua). He called the liquid "styrol"...
- the Liquid Storax of commerce, which is the product of an altogether different Eastern tree . . . The Talmud contains several references to the Storax plant...
- addition to its economic prosperity, Pipalo boasted affluence in myrrh, liquid storax gum, and remarkably thick tortoise s****. The kingdom's unique combination...
- PMID 24553245. Simon, E. (1839) "Ueber den flüssigen Storax (Styrax liquidus)" [On liquid storax (Styrax liquidus)], Annalen der Chemie, 31 : 265–277...
- names, shortly as storax to include all sweetgum oils, or as styrax Levant, styrax gum, Asiatic storax, balsam storax, liquid storax, Oriental sweetgum...
- horns of over ten catties weight. The land is also rich in putchuck, liquid storax gum, myrrh, and tortoise s**** of extraordinary thickness, for which...
- 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 Hidden Secrets (London, 1586): Benzoin resin, calamite, labdanum, and storax balsam were ground into a powder, dissolved in rose water and put into a...
- the solid and liquid storax together; some of their writers however have distinguished them, as Avicenna, who treats of the liquid storax under the name...