Benzoin Synonyms

bĕnzō-ĭn, -zoin
Gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gum benzoin
  2. benjamin
  3. gum benjamin
  4. asa dulcis
Used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genus Benzoin

Words Related to Benzoin

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. witch-hazel
  2. camphor
  3. olibanum
  4. boswellia
  5. ylang-ylang
  6. jojoba
  7. bisabolol
  8. menthol
  9. triethanolamine

Benzoin Sentence Examples

  • In cold weather the Egyptians warm their rooms by placing in them a brazier, "chafing-dish," or "standing-dish," filled with charcoal, whereon incense is burnt; and in hot weather they refresh them by occasionally swinging a hand censer by a chain through them - frankincense, benzoin and aloe wood being.

  • It has been identified with benzoin, but was probably frankincense.

  • Now, however, the incense in commonest use in India is benzoin.

  • The incense sticks and pastils known all over India under the names of ud-buti (" benzoin-light") or aggar-ki-buti (" wood aloes light") are composed of benzoin, wood aloes, sandalwood, rock lichen, patchouli, rose-malloes, talispat (the leaf of Flacourtia Cataphracta of Roxburgh), mastic and sugar-candy or gum.

  • At marriage they burn benzoin with nim seeds (Melia Azadirachta, Roxburgh) to keep off evil spirits, and prepare the bride-cakes by putting a quantity of benzoin between layers of wheaten dough, closed all round, and frying them in clarified butter.

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