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CISTUS LADANIFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cistus ladanifer mean?
• CISTUS LADANIFER (noun)
The noun CISTUS LADANIFER has 1 sense:
1. shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
Familiarity information: CISTUS LADANIFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cistus ladanifer; Cistus ladanum; common gum cistus
Hypernyms ("Cistus ladanifer" 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 "Cistus ladanifer"):
labdanum; ladanum (a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative)
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