common gum cistus

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsCistus ladaniferCistus ladanum

   Broaderrockrose

Questions about common gum cistus

What does common gum cistus mean?

common gum cistus means "shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative".

What is another word for common gum cistus?

Close synonyms include Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum. 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 common gum cistus a common word?

common gum cistus 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.