different between tragacanth vs olibanum

English

Etymology

From Latin tragacantha, from Koine Greek ?????????? (tragákantha, “tragacanth”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (trágos, “he-goat”) + ?????? (ákantha, “thorn”). Doublet of adragant.

Noun

tragacanth (countable and uncountable, plural tragacanths)

1. A polysaccharide gum, extracted from several species of leguminous plants of the genus Astragalus, formerly used medicinally and now as a food additive. Also more fully gum tragacanth. [from 16th c.]
   • 1844, E.A.Poe, Marginalia

     Where what I have to note is too much to be included within the narrow limits of a margin, I commit it to a slip of paper, and deposit it between the leaves; taking care to secure it by an imperceptible portion of gum tragacanth paste.

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:

     There would have been many gums and resins in these markets for our lute-maker to bind his wood with: […] gum tragacanth from Aleppo, which would be sold as thin and wrinkled worm-like pieces of shrub.

Synonyms

• E413 when used as a thickener, stabiliser and emulsifier

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, Late Latin libanus, from Latin oleum libani (“oil of Lebanon”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia carterii, now Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source. See the Semitic root lbn ????, meaning "white". See also (Biblical Hebrew ????????? (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic ????? (lub?n, “frankincense”)). Compare benzoin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l?b?n?m/

Noun

olibanum (countable and uncountable, plural olibanums)

1. A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense. [from 14th c.]

Synonyms

• frankincense

Anagrams

• balonium