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frankincense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
| Type of | gum |
Examples of frankincense
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Frankincense is harvested by making cuts in the tree bark during the dry season.
From the timesunion.com
In the Christmas story, the Three Wise Men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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Some of the smell of the frankincense smoke is due to the products of pyrolysis.
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It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums.
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When I was younger, I knew that gold was valuable, but why frankincense and myrrh?
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The Premier, naturally, had the gold, and Hodgman the sweet smell of frankincense.
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Silver and Hojari are generally considered the highest grades of frankincense.
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Frankincense essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of the dry resin.
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A tree resin much like frankincense and myrrh, copal nuggets look like amber.
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- An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
- Frankincense, also called olibanum, is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae, particularly Boswellia sacra (syn: B. bhaw-dajiana), B. carterii33, B. frereana, B. serrata (B. thurifera, Indian frankincense), and B. papyrifera. The English word is derived from Old French "franc encens" (i.e., high quality incense).
- A type of incense obtained from the Boswellia thurifera tree
- A gum used for incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus
- A gum resin from a tree (genus Boswellia) found in Arabia and Eastern Africa. It is harvested by making an incision in the bark; the milky juice leaks out and is left to harden over a period of months before it is collected. Also called Olibanum.
- Stimulating, aids with stress, and the immune system.
- (Heb. lebonah ; Gr. libanos , i.e., "white"), an odorous resin imported from Arabia (Isa 60:6; Jer 6:20), yet also growing in Palestine (Sol 4:14). ...
- (Heb. lebonah) should not be confounded with incense (Heb. qetorah), which confusion has been made in several passages of the English Bibles, e. g., Is., xliii, 23; lx, 6 (A. V.); Jer., vi, 20. Incense was a mixture of frankincense and other spices (Ex., xxx, 34-5). ...
- Aromatic gum resin from the North African Boswellia tree, formerly valued for ceremonial worship, embalming and fumigation. Forms a strong disinfectant when burned with other incense herbs.
