A gum resin gathered from specific Oriental types of Cistus. It offers a pungent smell and is mainly found in making plasters, and fumigation.
A resinous liquid that exudes from Cistus ladaniferus, a shrub which develops in Spain and Portugal, and from C. Creticus and C. salvifolius, which grow in Crete, Syria, etc.
a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from numerous rockroses found in perfumes especially as a fixative
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed or by which things are represented as much greater or less better or worse than they really are a statement exaggerated fancifully through excitement or for effect...
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