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Definition of Ladanum
1. Noun. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
Substance meronyms: Cistus Ladanifer, Cistus Ladanum, Common Gum Cistus
Generic synonyms: Oleoresin
Definition of Ladanum
1. n. A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
Definition of Ladanum
1. labdanum [n -S] - See also: labdanum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ladanum
Literary usage of Ladanum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"ladanum, or LAUDANUM, a resinous exudation of various evergreen shrubs of the genus
... ladanum ..."
2. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"... however, to utero-gestation, but connected with the lacteal secretion. Taken in
connection Labdanum,* or ladanum.* See CISTUS CRETICUS. La-bellum. ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"GALEOPSIS ladanum L. — This name stood in the 7th ed. of the London Catalogue
for our ... In the Student's Flora it is the same, only G. ladanum Linn. ..."
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