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    COMMON GUM CISTUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixativeplay

    Synonyms:

    Cistus ladanifer; Cistus ladanum; common gum cistus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("common gum cistus" 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 "common gum cistus"):

    labdanum; ladanum (a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative)

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