Definition of galbanum:

part of speech: noun

The resinous sap of an umbelliferous plant imported from Turkey.

Usage examples:

• Galbanum Plaster spread either on wash leather, or on what is better, on an old white kid glove, has been, in one of our medical journals, strongly recommended as a corn plaster, it certainly is an admirable one, and when the corn is between the toes is sometimes most comfortable- affording immense relief. Pye Henry Chavasse in "Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children".

• Yet this was once a hero's temple, crowned With myrtle- boughs by lovers, and with palm By wrestlers, resonant with sweetest sound Of flute and fife in summer evening's calm, And odorous with incense all the year, With nard and spice, and galbanum and balm. John Symonds in "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III.".

• In the mean time the Cattle must be kept in a warm Place, and Cloath'd, daily shaking Fumigations in the Cow- Houses with Juniper Berries, Galbanum and the like. Richard Bradley in "The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd".

• Learn also scented cedar- wood to burn Within the stalls, and snakes of noxious smell With fumes of galbanum to drive away. Virgil in "The Georgics".