Incense tree Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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Definitions
  1. the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree.

Webster 1913