LIQUIDAMBAR • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Liquidambar

... (FIGURE 135. Liquidambar europaeum, var. trilobatum, A. Br. (sometimes four- lobed, and more commonly five-lobed). a. Leaf, half natural size. b. Part of same, natural size. c. Fruit, natural size. d. Seed, ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... strength of form and vigor of color, with the scarlet crest and king-like bearing of the bird. The big trees of California excepted, our tulip-bearing Liriodendron is the largest growth of the North-American forests; for, while the plane-tree and the liquidambar-(sweet-gum) tree sometimes measure more in diameter near the ground, they are usually hollow, and consequently bulged there, while the tulip springs boldly out of the ground a solid shaft of clear, clean, and sweetly-fragrant wood, sixty or ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various