Cistus - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cistusCistus
a genus of small to medium sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and northern Africa...
Hypocist
An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant Cytinus hypocistis growing from the roots of the Cistus a small European shrub...
Ladanum
A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters and for fumigation...
Myrrh
A gum resin usually of a yellowish brown or amber color of an aromatic odor and a bitter slightly pungent taste It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia the Commiphora Myrrha syn Balsamodendron Myrrha of the family Burseraceae or from the Commiphora abyssinica The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named and partly the exudation of species of Cistus or rockrose...
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