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olibanum
Olibanum (noun) means a gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.
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A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, from Latin oleum libani, the first word meaning oil and the second from Ancient Greek λίβανος (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source, compare Proto-Semitic *laban- (“white”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”). (Compare benzoin for a similar process of metanalysis.) Doublet of oliban.
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"olibanum" (noun) means a gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.