balsam
has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology,botany
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[ noun ] (botany) any seed plant yielding balsam
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Pale yellow snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite ; seed-pods of the balsams that snapped like fire-crackers at a touch ; red and yellow columbines whose round tipped spurs were picked_off and eaten for the honey in them ; morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper_bag ; bright flowers from the trumpet_vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 32438
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) a fragrant ointment containing a balsam resin
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