Core sense — the frankincense-tree; frankincense, or olibanumgenerated
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[The frankincense-tree] is a tree of the kind called عِضَاه, with a fruit resembling the pistachio-nut and a resin like the كُنْدُر [which is said to be the same as the لُبَان] when it hardens.
In the article سيع.
It is also, and more commonly, applied to the resin itself: frankincense, or olibanum.
The tree that produces it is now known to be of the genus Boswellia, found in Hadramowt and other parts of southern Arabia, and also in the opposite (eastern) region of Africa, and in India; it was formerly wrongly supposed to be the Juniperus Lycia.
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حَصَى لُبَانٍ: see عَسَلٌ, and see the article حصى.
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[The frankincense-tree] is a tree of the kind called عِضَاه , having a fruit resembling the pistachio-nut, and a resin like the كُنْدُر , [which is said in the S and TA to be the same as the لُبَان ,] when it concretes: (O and TA in art. سيع :) it is also, and more commonly, applied to the resin itself, i. e. frankincense, or olibanum: the tree that produces it is now known to be of the genus Boswellia, found in Hadramowt and other parts of Southern Arabia, and also in the opposite (eastern) region of Africa, and in India: it was formerly erroneously supposed to be the Juniperus Lycia. حَصَى لُبَانٍ : see K, voce عَسَلٌ ; and see art. حصى .