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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Balsam of Tolu.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A balsam obtained from incisions through the bark of Myroxylon Toluifera, an evergreen tree 60 or 80 feet high, found in the uplands of the United States of Colombia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under balsam.
  • noun (Bot.) a large tree (Myroxylon toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The resinous secretion of Myroxylon balsamum, used in cough syrups and perfumery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish tolú, after Tolú, a seaport of northwest Colombia.]

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Tolú

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