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gum cistuses

gum cistuses is the plural of gum cistus.

Meaning of gum cistus

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

Questions about gum cistuses

What is gum cistuses the plural of?
Gum cistuses is the plural of gum cistus.

Words near gum cistuses in the dictionary

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

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