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Canada balsam

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Noun
  1. 1
    A turpentine made from the resin of the balsam fir tree. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees wordnet
  3. 3
    The tree itself (Abies balsamea). countable, uncountable

    "I have seen a few tamaracks at odd spots, and on the Athabaska I saw a small grove of Canada balsams, the only place I ever saw them in the northwest."

  4. 4
    yellow transparent exudate of the balsam fir; used as a transparent cement in optical devices (especially in microscopy) and as a mounting medium wordnet

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