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CISTUS LADANUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cistus ladanum mean? 

CISTUS LADANUM (noun)
  The noun CISTUS LADANUM has 1 sense:

1. shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixativeplay

  Familiarity information: CISTUS LADANUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CISTUS LADANUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cistus ladanifer; Cistus ladanum; common gum cistus

Hypernyms ("Cistus ladanum" 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 "Cistus ladanum"):

labdanum; ladanum (a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative)


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