SWEET GUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet gum mean? 

• SWEET GUM (noun)
  The noun SWEET GUM has 3 senses:

1. reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture

2. aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree

3. a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap

  Familiarity information: SWEET GUM used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEET GUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hazelwood; red gum; satin walnut; sweet gum

Hypernyms ("sweet gum" is a kind of...):

gum; gumwood (wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

liquidambar; sweet gum

Hypernyms ("sweet gum" is a kind of...):

gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)

Holonyms ("sweet gum" is a substance of...):

American sweet gum; bilsted; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum; sweet gum tree (a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American sweet gum; bilsted; Liquidambar styraciflua; red gum; sweet gum; sweet gum tree

Hypernyms ("sweet gum" is a kind of...):

liquidambar (any tree of the genus Liquidambar)

Meronyms (substance of "sweet gum"):

liquidambar; sweet gum (aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree)

Holonyms ("sweet gum" is a member of...):

genus Liquidambar; Liquidambar (sweet gum)