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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A viscous, yellowish, transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir and used as a cement for glass lenses and for mounting specimens on microscopic slides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See the nouns.
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- noun A
turpentine made from the resin of thebalsam fir tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun yellow transparent exudate of the balsam fir; used as a transparent cement in optical devices (especially in microscopy) and as a mounting medium
- noun medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees
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