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Definition of Storaxes
1. storax [n] - See also: storax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Storaxes
Literary usage of Storaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The storaxes are handsome shrubs of graceful, usually loose and spreading habit
with numerous white and mostly fragrant, often pendulous, flowers in racemes ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The storaxes are handsome shrubs of graceful habit, usually loose and spreading.
Their flowers are numerous, white and mostly fragrant. ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Then take the best labdanum, benjoin, both storaxes, ambergris, civet, and musk.
Incorporate them together, and work them into what form you ..."
4. The Return from Parnassus, Or, The Scourge of Simony: Or, The Scourge of Simony by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (1905)
"... both storaxes, ambergris, civet and musk, incorporate them together and work
them into what form you please. This, if your breath is not too valiant, ..."
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