Definition of Bulnesia sarmienti

1. Noun. South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense.

Exact synonyms: Palo Santo
Group relationships: Bulnesia, Genus Bulnesia
Terms within: Guaiac Wood, Guaiacum Wood
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulnesia Sarmienti

Bulgarian
Bulgarian Hound
Bulgarian Hounds
Bulgarian capital
Bulgarian monetary unit
Bulgarians
Bulgary
Buli
Bull Moose Party
Bull Run
Bullmastiff
Bullmastiffs
Bullock's oriole
Bullom So
Bulnesia
Bulnesia sarmienti
Bultmann
Bulverism
Bulwer-Lytton
Bumelia lanuginosa
Bumelia lycioides
Bumke's pupil
Bums
Bunburying

Literary usage of Bulnesia sarmienti

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"Champaca wood oil is obtained from a different tree (bulnesia sarmienti). The oil is distilled, as the term indicates, from the wood. ..."

2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"According to EP Paetzold, the so-called concrete oil of guaiacum- wood is the product of bulnesia sarmienti, and is one of the chief adulterants of Turkish ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"... treatment of syphilis, and that its former reputation in this respect is justified. Similarly he finds that the wood of bulnesia sarmienti, from which ..."

4. The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry (1908)
"... bulnesia sarmienti, and is known as Palo santo (holy wood) to the natives. It appears to be indigenous to Argentine and Paraguay, and is especially ..."

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