storax

From Middle English storace, storage, storax, storaxe, storrax, from Latin storax.

storax (countable and uncountable, plural storaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.

   Synonym: styrax

2. The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.

   Synonym: rose mallows

   • 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:

     Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

     Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.

• taxors

Ultimately from Latin storax, variant of styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstoː.rɑks/

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• Hyphenation: sto‧rax
• Rhymes: -oːrɑks

storax m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of styrax.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔräks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈst̪ɔːräks]

storax m (genitive storacis); third declension

1. alternative form of styrax

Third-declension noun.

• storacinus

Borrowed from French [Term?] or Latin storax.

storax n (uncountable)

1. storax (resin)