| Meaning | Any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense. |
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| Member of | Burseraceae, family Burseraceae, torchwood family | resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees |
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| Narrower | Boswellia carteri | Tree yielding an aromatic gum resin burned as incense |
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| 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 |
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| Substances | elemi, gum elemi | fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense |
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| incense wood | fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium |
