BENZOINS Synonyms

• any seed plant yielding balsam

• any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes

• an ointment containing a fragrant resin

• a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

• the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

• any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

• cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

• wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

• any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

• cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum

• grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty

• become sticky

• exude or form gum

• any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

• (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel

• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

• used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera

• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation