NOUN | plant | common gum cistus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum | shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative |
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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. | |
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Synonyms | Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum | |
Broader | rockrose, rock rose | small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions / regions of southern Europe and North Africa |
Substances | labdanum, ladanum | A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative |
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