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Obtained as a juice from certain rockroses
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labdanum
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n. 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 [syn: gum labdanum ] a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially ...
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Labdanum , also called ladanum , laudanum , ladan or ladanon , is a sticky brown resin obtained from the shrubs Cistus ladanifer (western Mediterranean) and Cistus creticus (eastern Mediterranean), species of rockrose . It has a long history of use in herbal ...
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Ladanum \Lad"a*num\, n. [L. ladanum, ledanum, Gr. la`danon, lh`danon, fr. lh^don name of a shrub, mastic; cf. Per. l[=a]dan, l[=a]den. Cf. Laudanum .] A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus . It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used ...
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n. A sticky brown resin obtained from species of rockrose, used mainly in perfume.
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Cistus Creticus, or European Rock Rose, the only other plant of the order used in medicine, yields the gum resin Ladanum or Labdanum, a natural exudation valued as a stimulant expectorant and emmenagogue.