gum labdanum

1. 1.

   a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses

   Synonymslabdanum

   Broaderoleoresin

Questions about gum labdanum

What does gum labdanum mean?

gum labdanum means "a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses".

What is another word for gum labdanum?

Close synonyms include labdanum. 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 gum labdanum a common word?

gum labdanum 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.