[n] a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap [n] aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree [n] reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture
American sweet gum, bilsted, hazelwood, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum tree