lentisk

From the lentisk bushes and the cypress of the north to the shingle sands of Skala in the south, from the underground lakes of Sami in the east to the vertiginous slopes of Petani in the west, Arsenios trudged and sermonised.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

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 2003

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 2000

Tenian [785] garlic into the mortar, pounded them with an admixture of fig-tree sap and lentisk, moistened the whole with Sphettian [786] 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.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

On lentisk leaves; or lie them down, ripe strawberries o'er their head.

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

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 Maurice Henry Hewlett

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 Walter Barnes

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 1840-1916 1913

Besides the pine, its most common trees are the prickly oak, myrtle, lentisk, carob and olive.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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 1906