gum olibanum

1. 1.

   an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

   Synonymsfrankincenseolibanumthus

   Broadergum

Questions about gum olibanum

What does gum olibanum mean?

gum olibanum means "an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation".

What is another word for gum olibanum?

Close synonyms include frankincense, olibanum, thus. 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 olibanum a common word?

gum olibanum 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.