a kind of aromatic preparation; a compounded perfume.

the plant Boswellia serrata ( = B. thurifera) of Burseraceae family.

the fragrant resin obtained from this plant.

the brownish-yellow, sticky, semifluid oleoresin exuding from the terebinth or any of the various sticky, viscid oleo-resins obtained from pines and other coniferous trees; turpentine.