asa dulcis

1. 1.

   gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

   Synonymsbenzoingum benzoinbenjamingum benjamin

   Broadergum resin

Questions about asa dulcis

What does asa dulcis mean?

asa dulcis means "gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation".

What is another word for asa dulcis?

Close synonyms include benzoin, gum benzoin, benjamin, gum benjamin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asa dulcis a common word?

asa dulcis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.