incense : Idioms & Phrases

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incense cedar

  • noun any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood
  • noun tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark
    red cedar; Libocedrus decurrens; Calocedrus decurrens.
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Incense tree

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

Incense wood

  • noun fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium
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  • the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.
Webster 1913