(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:34:15

Ol"i*bene (?), n. Chem.

A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

 

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