Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family
The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant
{i} any of a number of shrubs or trees having bell-shaped white flowers (native to eastern Asia); aromatic resin obtained from shrubs or trees belonging to the storax family