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Ladanum  n.  (Written also labdanum)  A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.






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"Ladanum" Quotes from Famous Books



... why, sir? What reck I to whom I discover? I have it in musk, civet, amber, Phoenicobalanus, the decoction of turmerick, sesana, nard, spikenard, calamus odoratus, stacte, opobalsamum, amomum, storax, ladanum, aspalathum, opoponax, oenanthe. And what of all these now? what are you the better? Tut, it is the sorting, and the dividing, and the mixing, and the tempering, and the searching, and the decocting, that makes the fumigation and ...
— Cynthia's Revels • Ben Jonson



Words linked to "Ladanum" :   labdanum, Cistus ladanifer, common gum cistus



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