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Incense tree   /ɪnsˈɛns tri/   Listen
Incense tree

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





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"Incense tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... recent is known as Piney Varnish, and when hardened, is sold for export under the names of Indian Copal, White Dammar, and others. Its northern limit of growth is North but the gum is exported from Bombay. The tree is the Chloroxylon Dupada of Buchanan, and is, I imagine, the Dupu or Incense Tree of Rheede. (Hort. Malab. IV.) The tree is a fine one, and forms beautiful avenues in Malabar and Canara. The Hindus use the resin as an incense, and in Malabar it is also made into candles which burn fragrantly and with ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... rose-tree, Or a curious incense tree: . . . . Come, eat the bread of idleness, Said ...
— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay


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