Common gum cistus (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
Synonyms:
Cistus ladanifer; Cistus ladanum; common gum cistus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common gum cistus" is a kind of...):
rock rose; rockrose (small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage)
Meronyms (substance of "common gum cistus"):
labdanum; ladanum (a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative)