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INCENSE TREE

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("incense tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "incense tree"):

elemi; gum elemi (fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense)

incense wood (fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incense tree"):

Bursera microphylla; elephant tree (small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers)

Bursera simaruba; gumbo-limbo (tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes)

Boswellia carteri (tree yielding an aromatic gum resin burned as incense)

Boswellia serrata; salai (East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense)

balm of gilead; Commiphora meccanensis (small evergreen tree of Africa and Asia; leaves have a strong aromatic odor when bruised)

Commiphora myrrha; myrrh tree (tree of eastern Africa and Asia yielding myrrh)

Protium heptaphyllum; Protium guianense (tropical American tree)

Holonyms ("incense tree" is a member of...):

Burseraceae; family Burseraceae; torchwood family (resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees)

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