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balsam

[bawl-suhm] / ˈbɔl səm /


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The authority said it will be looking to create glade areas for habitat diversity and control invasive and non-native Himalayan balsam.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Walcott studied the fossils by cutting them into sections of paper-thin slices of rock and attaching them to glass slides using balsam sap.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

“I thought they were real — it said the wreaths had something like 200 balsam tips,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

It was a beach day, by Maine standards — slightly overcast and moderately balmy, with a hint of balsam in the air.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Derrick—with a braid almost as long as mine hanging over his neck and dangling like a vine—was in a pine straight across the road from where I was perched in sticky balsam.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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