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Opobalsam

OPOBAL'SAM

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Noun.
[L. Gr. juice, and balsamum.]
The balm or balsam of Gilead. It has a yellowish or greenish yellow color, a warm bitterish aromatic taste, and an acidulous fragrant smell. It is held in esteem as a medicine and as an odoriferous unguent and cosmetic. The shrub or tree producing this balsam is of the genus Amyris, and grows spontaneously in Arabia Felix.

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opobalsam

opobalsam

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opobalsam (countable and uncountable, plural opobalsams)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) The aromatic resinous juice of Balsamodendron opobalsamum - balm of Gilead.

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