incense_tree (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *incense tree*:
NOUN	plant	incense tree	any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense

English > *incense tree*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense.
Member of	Burseraceae, family Burseraceae, torchwood family	resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees
Narrower	Boswellia carteri	Tree yielding an aromatic gum resin burned as incense
	Protium guianense	Tropical American tree
	Protium heptaphyllum	Tropical American tree
	balm of gilead, Commiphora meccanensis	small evergreen tree of Africa and Asia
	elephant tree, Bursera microphylla	small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers
	gumbo-limbo, Bursera simaruba	Tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes
	myrrh tree, Commiphora myrrha	Tree of eastern Africa and Asia yielding myrrh
	salai, Boswellia serrata	East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense
Broader	tree	A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown
Substances	elemi, gum elemi	fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense
Substances	incense wood	fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium

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