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Definition of Lentisk
1. Noun. An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin.
Group relationships: Genus Pistacia, Pistacia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Lentisk
1. an evergreen tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lentisk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentisk
Literary usage of Lentisk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"THE lentisk. The same degree of care is expended also on the cultivation of the
... and the lentisk ;w that it may not be thought, forsooth, that there is ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... the gum of the lentisk tree. MASTICATE, v. To chew the food, to -ION. bruise or
crush it with the teeth. -ORY. ..."
3. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"The culture of the lentisk is simple, anil attended with little trouble ; it
consists much uore in cleansing than in turning the soil. ..."
4. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"The culture of the lentisk is simple, and attended with little trouble; it consists
much more in cleansing than in turning the soil. ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"Then fill, fill, fill to him Mill, By the lentisk copse, and the vine-cover'd
hill, The sweet lily beds, and the dancing rill,— Fill, fill ! ..."
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