opopanax

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Definition of opopanax in English Turkish dictionary

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Definition of opopanax in English English dictionary

The opopanax tree, Acacia farnesiana, an acacia of America

A perfume made from the gum resin of various trees

they were hit by a strong polyaromatic gust which included alcohol fumes, tobacco and hemp-smoke, a spectrum of inexpensive scent in which opopanax and vervain figured prominently.

A gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium, formerly used in medicine

It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic

an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines

{i} fragrant gum resin used in the past in medicine (today is used in perfume and incenses)

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white

Etymology

() Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopanax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opos, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (panax).