Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinaceous
Literary usage of Pinaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Extra Pharmacopoeia of Unofficial Drugs and Chemical and Pharmaceutical by William Martindale, William Wynn Westcott (1884)
"... appear yellow or brownish-yellow, but in mass it has a greenish-brown colour.
It has, when fresh, a distinctive odour, slightly like the pinaceous ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"... a shrubby stove plant, grown in China, in trenches filled with water, and used
as a •pinaceous or ..."
3. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"... a pinaceous plant, employed in the United States as a substitute for savin.
The wood is used for black-lead pencils. ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"On being wounded, like all other pinaceous plants, it exudes a transparent resinous
gum, possessing a pleasant aromatic smell, but differs vor)- materially, ..."
5. The Life of Sir Robert Christison, Bart. by Robert Christison (1886)
"Those on seventeen pinaceous trees give a proportion of 80 to 100. The cause is
not far to seek. In the first place, last year the buds did not unfold ..."
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