1. shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative; [syn: common gum cistus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
common gum cistus
n 1: shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves
yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially
as a fixative [syn: common gum cistus, Cistus
ladanifer, Cistus ladanum]