/ Thesaurus / S Synonyms of sweet gum Find synonyms for: Noun1. sweet gum, satin walnut, hazelwood, red gum, gumwood, gumusage: reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture2. sweet gum, liquidambar, gumusage: aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree3. sweet gum, sweet gum tree, bilsted, red gum, American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, liquidambarusage: a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sapWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: nefarious Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language