COMMON GUM CISTUS

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Meaning:

Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative

Synonyms:

Cistus ladanifer; Cistus ladanum; common gum cistus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common gum cistus" is a kind of...):

rock rose; rockrose (small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage)

Meronyms (substance of "common gum cistus"):

labdanum; ladanum (a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative)

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