balsam
noun
any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead.
balsamy
-
a word derived from
balsam.
Example Sentences
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The red light between the boughs made brilliant carpet patterns on the thick pine needles and the smell was balsamy and sweet.
From Keziah Coffin by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Not a breath of wind disturbed the clear, balsamy fragrance of the shadowed air, and the fawn appeared to sleep, though its great liquid eyes were wide open.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Behind the station the balsamy copse of young firs was frost-misted.
From Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
And then, with his arms full of the fragrant, balsamy boughs, he stopped and let them slip down to the ground and himself sat down upon a log and filled his pipe with slow fingers.
From The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
