opopanax noun. [ǝ'pɒpǝnaks] LME.
[Latin from Greek, from opos juice + panax: see PANACEA.]
1. A fetid gum resin from the root of Opopanax chironium, a yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant of southern Europe. LME.

2. A gum resin obtained from a kind of myrrh tree, Commiphora kataf; a perfume made from this. M19.

3. More fully opopanax-tree. A spiny acacia, of tropical and subtropical America, with fragrant yellow flowers Acacia farnesiana, which yield an essential oil. Also called cassie, sponge tree. L19.

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