OLEORESIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oleoresin mean? 

• OLEORESIN (noun)
  The noun OLEORESIN has 1 sense:

1. a naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants

  Familiarity information: OLEORESIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLEORESIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("oleoresin" is a kind of...):

natural resin (a plant exudate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oleoresin"):

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

balsam (any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes)

Canada balsam (yellow transparent exudate of the balsam fir; used as a transparent cement in optical devices (especially in microscopy) and as a mounting medium)

gum terpentine; turpentine (obtained from conifers (especially pines))

balsam capivi; copaiba; copaiba balsam (an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments)

gum labdanum; labdanum (a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses)

oleoresin capiscum (an oleoresin extracted from the capsicum pepper plant)

 Context examples 

Extracts of this oleoresin have been used as a folk medicine for centuries in Ayurdevic medicine in India.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)

Strips of its bark yield a gummy oleoresin which contains oils, terpenoids and gum.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)