sweet gum

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

Illustration of SWEET GUM

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

sweet gum

noun    (Medical Dictionary)

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