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Definition of Cistus ladanifer
1. Noun. Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
Generic synonyms: Rock Rose, Rockrose
Terms within: Labdanum, Ladanum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cistus Ladanifer
Literary usage of Cistus ladanifer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter ...by Peter Collinson by Peter Collinson (2002)
"86 Cistus ladanifer. Georg Dionysius Ehret. Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation, p. 86 Cistus ladanifer. Georg Dionysius Ehret. ..."
2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"A ladanum is obtained in Spain by boiling the tops of the Cistus ladanifer ; it
is a black mass with a clean, vitreous fracture. Ii. bush. ..."
3. Records of General Science by Robert Dundas Thomson, T Thomson (1835)
"... consisting of plants which form the ornament of our gardens, as Cisti, especially
Cistus ladanifer, Pistacia lentiscus, Arbutus unedo the tree heath, ..."
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