Crossword clues for ladanum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed, Helianthemum Canadense.
Cretan rockrose, a related shrub ( Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of labdanum English)
WordNet
n. a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative [syn: labdanum]
Usage examples of "ladanum".
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.
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.
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.
Her conscience panged her as she pretended to add ladanum to the binding', sprinkling the scantest layer of herbs on the snowy cloth.