incense tree

English

Noun

incense tree (plural incense trees)

1. Any of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica, now Protium), mostly tropical American, whose gum resin is used for incense.
2. (Jamaica) Chrysobalanus icaco, a tree related to the plums.

Further reading

• Icica at The Plant List

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incense tree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)