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Definition of Pistachio tree

1. Noun. Small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistachio Tree

Literary usage of Pistachio tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"11, and observes that Dioscorides, stus, and others, speak of the pistachio-tree with the almond-tree; as there is no n early writers of the Pistacia vera ..."

2. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"The pistachio tree of ... reached but up to the shoulders of Adda Dialah, and common people were but half as tall as the pistachio tree of ..."

3. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... and is here intended to denote the pistachio-tree, for the terebinth does not yield edible fruit.6 Syria and Palestine have been long famous for ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The1 pistacia or pistachio tree (Pistacia vera), в native of Persia and Syria, but now cultivated in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, and in many places ..."

5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"[The pistachio tree.] " THE pistachio tree, when laden with clusters of the ripe smooth nuts of a beautiful pale blush colour, makes a fine appearance, ..."

6. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"11, and observes that Dioscorides, stus, and others, speak of the pistachio-tree with the almond-tree; as there is no n early writers of the Pistacia vera ..."

7. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"The pistachio tree of ... reached but up to the shoulders of Adda Dialah, and common people were but half as tall as the pistachio tree of ..."

8. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... and is here intended to denote the pistachio-tree, for the terebinth does not yield edible fruit.6 Syria and Palestine have been long famous for ..."

9. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The1 pistacia or pistachio tree (Pistacia vera), в native of Persia and Syria, but now cultivated in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, and in many places ..."

10. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"[The pistachio tree.] " THE pistachio tree, when laden with clusters of the ripe smooth nuts of a beautiful pale blush colour, makes a fine appearance, ..."

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