sweet gum

English Thesaurus

1. a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liquidambar,
definition	:	any tree of the genus Liquidambar (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus liquidambar, liquidambar,
definition	:	sweet gum (noun.plant)

substance holonym	:	liquidambar, sweet gum,
definition	:	aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree (noun.plant)

2. aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gum,
definition	:	any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	american sweet gum, bilsted, liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree,
definition	:	a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap (noun.plant)

3. reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gum, gumwood,
definition	:	wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum (noun.plant)