ladanum
    n 1: a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various
         rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative [syn:
         labdanum, ladanum]

Ladanum \Lad"a*num\, n. [L. ladanum, ledanum, Gr. la`danon,
   lh`danon, fr. lh^don name of a shrub, mastic; cf. Per.
   l[=a]dan, l[=a]den. Cf. Laudanum.]
   A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of
   Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making
   plasters, and for fumigation. [Written also labdanum.]
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Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.)
   A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low
   shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European
   Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed,
   Helianthemum Canadense.
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   Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one
      of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
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