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sweet gum
noun
Definition of SWEET GUM
1
: a North American tree (Liquidambar styraciflua) of the witch-hazel family with palmately lobed glossy green leaves, corky twigs, a round spiny brown fruit cluster, and hard wood
2
: the smooth reddish-brown wood of the sweet gum
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First Known Use of SWEET GUM
1700
Rhymes with SWEET GUM
alum, aplomb, bass drum, bay rum, beach plum, become, benumb, degum, dim sum, dumdum, dum-dum, eardrum, far from, green thumb, hail from, ho-hum, how come, humdrum, income, in sum, outcome, pond scum, side drum, snare drum, sour gum, steel drum, subgum, succumb, therefrom, to come, Tom Thumb, tom-tom, wherefrom, yum-yum
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sweet gum
noun
Medical Definition of SWEET GUM
: a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar (L. styraciflua) with a round spiny brown fruit cluster and an inner bark that is the source of American storax
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