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countable and uncountable, plural bdelliums
An aromatic gum-like balsam extracted from one of several species of tree in the genus Commiphora. quotations examples
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 2:10–12