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.

Exact synonyms: Cistus Ladanum, Common Gum Cistus
Generic synonyms: Rock Rose, Rockrose
Terms within: Labdanum, Ladanum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cistus Ladanifer

Cirsium lanceolatum
Cirsium rivulare
Cirsium vulgare
Cisalpine Gaulish
Cisatlantic
Ciskei
Cisleithan
Cistaceae
Cistercian
Cistercians
Cistothorus
Cistothorus palustris
Cistothorus platensis
Cistus
Cistus albidus
Cistus ladanifer
Cistus ladanum
Cisuralian
Citation
Citellus
Citellus citellus
Citellus lateralis
Citellus leucurus
Citellus parryi
Citellus richardsoni
Citellus variegatus
Citharichthys
Citharichthys cornutus
Citibank
Citizen Genet

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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