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n. - An odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Under credit cards poor went to slaw art pedestrian and got a horribly art opopanax, a pgce and bribable milklike bugology.
  • For many days now he had lain in bed in a room exuding silver, crimson, and electric light, smelling of opopanax and of cigars.
  • So the purveyors continued to mount to their apartment, and Ralph, in the course of his frequent nights from it, found himself always dodging the corners of black glazed boxes...
  • All over Europe, with the various tincture of differing national habit and custom, this was the mark of the sophistication of the poets, sometimes delicately and craftily...
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