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lentisk

NOUN
  1. an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin

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  • Cistus, myrtle and cactus; cytisus, lentisk, arbutus; daphne, heath, broom, juniper and ilex -- these few I recognised, but there was no end to their varieties and none to their tangle of colours. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
  • On lentisk leaves; or lie them down, ripe strawberries o'er their head. Theocritus, translated into English Verse
  • Then he began to climb the mountain, first through brown woods of beech and oak, then through pine and broom, and then across red stony ledges where only a pinched growth of lentisk and briar spread in patches over the rock. The Hermit and the Wild Woman
  • And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes. Types of Children's Literature
  • Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles. Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • The accompanying scrub consists of Mediterranean mezereons, bush germanders, kermes oaks, sarsaparillas, lentisks, oleanders, strawberry trees, myrtles and junipers.
  • Aram. pistheqa-pesag (Dan., xiii, 54), the lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus, common in the East, which exudes a fragrant resin extensively used to flavour sweetmeats, wine, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Round about her were huddled the drowsy boys; on the slopes of the steep place where she lay she could see the goats browsing on lentisk and juniper, acanthus, bramble, mountain-ash. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
  • Besides the pine, its most common trees are the prickly oak, myrtle, lentisk, carob and olive. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • He first prepared an ointment for Neoclides; he threw three heads of Tenian garlic into the mortar, pounded them with an admixture of fig-tree sap and lentisk, moistened the whole with Sphettian vinegar, and, turning back the patient's eyelids, applied his salve to the interior of the eyes, so that the pain might be more excruciating. Plutus
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