FRANKINCENSE

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Meaning:

An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

Synonyms:

frankincense; gum olibanum; olibanum; thus

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("frankincense" is a kind of...):

gum (any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying)

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