3. Also used figuratively.
Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride,
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Gray. Incense tree,
the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American.
The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums,
is called incense tree. — Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera
heptaphylla.