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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 259 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELEMI , an oleo-See also:

resin (Manilla elemi) obtained in the Philippine Islands, probably from Canarium See also:commune (nat. ord. Burseraceae), which when fresh and of See also:good quality is a See also:pale yellow granular substance, of See also:honey-like consistency, but which gradually hardens with See also:age. It is soluble in See also:alcohol and See also:ether, and has a spicy See also:taste with a See also:smell like See also:fennel. In the 17th and 18th centuries the See also:term elemi usually denoted an oleo-resin (See also:American or Brazilian elemi) obtained from trees of the genus Icica in See also:Brazil, and still earlier it meant See also:oriental or See also:African elemi, derived from Boswellia Frereana, which flourishes in the neighbourhood of Cape Gardafui. The word, like the older term animi, appears to have been derived from enhaemon(Gr. Evaeµov), the name of a styptic See also:medicine said by See also:Pliny to contain tears exuded by the See also:olive See also:tree of See also:Arabia'.

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