Definitions for storax

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storax sto·rax

Spelling: [stawr-aks, stohr-]

IPA: /ˈstɔr æks, ˈstoʊr-/

Storax is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in storax (aorstx).

Definitions for storax

noun

1. a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
2. a liquid balsam (liquid storax) obtained from species of liquidambar, especially from the wood and inner bark of Liquidambar orientalis (Levant storax) a tree of Asia Minor: used chiefly in medicine and perfumery.
3. any shrub or tree of the genus Styrax, of the storax family, having elongated clusters of showy, white flowers.

Origin of storax

1350-1400; Middle English Latin, variant of styrax Greek stýrax

Examples for storax

They wash the body of the deceased to that sad cadence, and perfume it with storax, and other perfumes which are used among them.

You may try a strong ethereal or alcoholic solution of benzoin, tolu, storax, olibanum or labdanum.

By moistening ordinary cigars with a strong tincture of cascarilla, to which a little gum benzoin and storax may be added.

The storax is here chiefly employed to disguise the odour and taste of opium.

storax, a resin resembling benzoin, was in high esteem from the time of Pliny to the eighteenth century.

Benzoin and storax are also used, on account of their agreeable odour.

storax and Tolu are used in perfumery in the same way as benzoin, namely, by solution in spirit as a tincture.

Benzoin and storax are used also on account of their agreeable odour.

Afterwards place under it a chafing-dish, in which burn some storax and Benjamin.

Benzoin, dragon's-blood, and storax are not true balsams, though sometimes called so.