incense tree

1. 1.

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

   Broadertree

   Narrowerelephant treegumbo-limboBoswellia carterisalaibalm of gileadmyrrh treeProtium heptaphyllumProtium guianense

   Part ofBurseraceae

Questions about incense tree

What does incense tree mean?

incense tree means "any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense".

Is incense tree a common word?

incense tree 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.