Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mixture of levopentene and dipentene, obtained by distilling olibanum with water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also
conimene .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
essential oil , principally a mixture ofditerpenes , obtained by thedistillation ofolibanum .
Etymologies
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olibanum + -ene
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