- A resin - Aromatic lacquer ingredient - Fragrant lacquer ingredient - Fragrant resin - LME said to be fragrant resin - Resin used in incense - Some of the clientele might use resin
- Fragrant gum resin used in perfumery - Fragrant resin - The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the
Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose
granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color,
with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was
formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic.
- The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree
(Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is
of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach.
- Fragrant tree, — laurel - A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from
different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara
(the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and
fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or
sedative. - A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree
(Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also
Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol. - To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
- Gold, ... and myrrh - Start fire with foul-smelling, burning sticks of aromatic resin - A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as
an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best
kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a
commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other
coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still
unidentified.