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gum cistus

gum cistus noun: any of those flowering plants in the genus Cistus that yield resin, especially Cistus ladanifer.

Noun

gum cistus (plural gum cistuses)

  1. Any of those flowering plants in the genus Cistus that yield resin, especially Cistus ladanifer.
    • The plain where he was riding was one immense thicket of the gum cistus, whose frail white leaves, just veined with the faintest pink, fell in showers at the least movement of the passer-by. What a prodigality of blossom!—for the gum cistus, born and withered in an hour, is the most ephemeral of...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 339

gum cistus meaning in Arabic

gum cistus in Arabic

plant
قِسْتُوس qistūs, لَادَن lādan

Forms of gum cistus

pluralgum cistuses

Questions about gum cistus

What does gum cistus mean?
Gum cistus means any of those flowering plants in the genus Cistus that yield resin, especially Cistus ladanifer.
What is gum cistus in Arabic?
Gum cistus in Arabic is قِسْتُوس (qistūs), لَادَن (lādan). See Gum cistus meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is gum cistus?
Gum cistus is a noun.
What is the plural of gum cistus?
The plural of gum cistus is gum cistuses.

Words near gum cistus in the dictionary

  1. gum arabic
  2. gum Benjamin
  3. gum boot
  4. gum boots
  5. gum butea
  6. gum cistus
  7. gum cistuses
  8. gum coolibah
  9. gum coolibahs
  10. gum dammar
  11. gum dragon

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