Webster's 1828 Dictionary
STORAX
n.[L.] A plant or tree; also, a resinous and odoriferous drug brought from Turkey, but generally adulterated. It imparts to water a yellow color, and has been deemed a resolvent. Storax is a solid balsam, either in red tears, or in large cakes, brittle, but soft to the touch, and of a reddish brown color. It is obtained from the Styrax officinalis, a tree which grows in the Levant. Liquid storax, or styrax, is a liquid or semifluid balsam, said to be obtained from the Liquidamber styraciflua, a tree which grows in Virginia. It is greenish, of an aromatic taste, and agreeable smell.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
STORAX
Sto "rax, n. Etym: [L. storax, styrax, Gr. Styrax. ]
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
storax
sto rax |ˈstôˌraks ˈstɔræks |(also styrax |ˈstī -|) ▶noun 1 a rare fragrant gum resin obtained from an eastern Mediterranean tree, sometimes used in medicine, perfumery, and incense. • ( liquid storax ) a liquid balsam obtained from the Asian liquidambar tree. 2 a tropical or subtropical tree or shrub with showy white flowers in drooping clusters. [Genus Styrax, family Styracaceae: several species, in particular S. officinalis, from which the resin storax is obtained. ] ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin, from a variant of Greek sturax.
Oxford Dictionary
storax
storax |ˈstɔːraks |(also styrax ) ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] a rare fragrant gum resin obtained from an East Mediterranean tree, sometimes used in medicine, perfumery, and incense. • ( Levant or liquid storax ) a liquid balsam obtained from the Asian liquidambar tree. 2 a tropical or subtropical tree or shrub with showy white flowers in drooping clusters. ●Genus Styrax, family Styracaceae: several species, in particular S. officinalis, from which storax resin is obtained. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin, from a variant of Greek sturax.
Duden Dictionary
Storax
Sto rax Substantiv, maskulin , der Styrax |St o rax ˈst … ˈʃt …|lateinisch styrax (spätlateinisch storax ) < griechisch stýrax 1 Styraxbaum 2 ohne Plural (früher aus dem Styraxbaum gewonnener ) aromatisch riechender Balsam, der für Heilzwecke sowie in der Parfümindustrie verwendet wird
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