Canada balsam

Canada balsam (countable and uncountable, plural Canada balsams)

1. A turpentine made from the resin of the balsam fir tree.
2. The tree itself (Abies balsamea).
   • 1914, Ernest John Chambers, The Unexploited West:

     I have seen a few tamaracks at odd spots, and on the Athabaska I saw a small grove of Canada balsams, the only place I ever saw them in the northwest.

• (type of turpentine): balsam of fir, Canada turpentine

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