[a. L. styrax, a. Gr. στύραξ, storax, storax-tree.]
1. An aromatic gum; = STORAX 1.
1558. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr., I. 45. Take … Ambergryse,… Styrax calamita, [etc.] … And the Ambre, Styrax, and other thinges that remaine in the bottome of the sayd vessel,… will be excedinge good to make muske or swete balles.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. ii. III. 336. Belzoin, Ladanum, Styrax, and such like gummes, which make a pleasant and acceptable perfume.
1783. Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 239. It is but too common to find it adulterated … with styrax or other resins.
1882. Encycl. Brit., XIV. 687/2. It is from the bark of this latter tree [Liquidambar orientalis] that the storax of the ancients…, the medicinal styrax of to-day, is prepared.
2. A styrax-tree (see 3). Cf. STORAX 2.
1832. Macgillivray, Trav. Humboldt, xxiii. (1836), 329. The truncated cone of Tolima … rises amidst forests of styrax.
3. Comb., as styrax-flowing adj.; styrax tree, a tree of the genus Styrax, esp. S. officinalis.
1786. Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., Arrang. Plants, 30. Liquidambar, or sweet gum tree *Styrax-flowing.
1579. North, Plutarch, Lysander (1595), 493. Not far from thence there grow great plenty of *Styrax [printed Styrap] trees.
1767. Abercrombie, Ev. Man his own Gard. (1805), 685/1. Styrax-tree, officinal.
