NOUN
- aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups
How To Use tolu balsam In A Sentence
- Natural, edible oil-soluble gums suitable for use in balancing natural and synthetic flavor oils and neutral edible oils include damar, colophony, Canada balsam, elemi, copaiba, galbanum, labdanum, myrrh, oliganum, opopanax, Peruvian balsam, sandarac, storax, tolu balsam and mastic.
- The main constituents of tolu balsam are the benzyl- and cinnamyl esters of benzoic acid and cinnamic acid.
- Wild populations are the major sources of Peru and tolu balsam.
- Because they contain essential oil; some afford benzoic acid when heated, and these have been termed balsams; such as tolu balsam and benzoin. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
