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balsam

Any of various garden plants belonging to the balsam family. They are usually annuals with spurred red or white flowers and pods that burst and scatter their seeds when ripe. (Genus Impatiens, family Balsaminaceae.)

In medicine and perfumery, balsam refers to various oily or gummy aromatic plant resins, such as balsam of Peru from the Central American tree Myroxylon pereirae.



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"All that might be well dispensed with," said Don Quixote, "if I had remembered to make a vial of the balsam of Fierabras, for time and medicine are saved by one single drop.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Out of thy poisons brewedst thou balsam for thyself; thy cow, affliction, milkedst thou--now drinketh thou the sweet milk of her udder.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
A little sprig of balsam would not have mattered so much-- but geraniums
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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