Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of trees, of the order Anacardiaceæ and tribe Spondieæ, distinguished as the one apetalous genus of that polypetalous family.
- noun [lowercase] A tree of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio (
Pistacia vera ), the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus ), and the species (Pistacia Terebinthus ) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
tree genus Pistacia, including thepistachio .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit
Etymologies
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Examples
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The early 6th-Century manuscript De observatione ciborum (On the observance of foods) by Anthimus implies that pistachio nuts ( "pistacia" in vulgar Latin) were well known in Europe by late Roman times.
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The mummification process typically involved a recipe that was 80 per cent fat or oil, 10 per cent pistacia resin, 10 per cent conifer resin and a pinch of cinnamon.
Ancient Egyptians Mummified Pet Cats With Great Care | Impact Lab 2007
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He set out stocks of imported hawthorns, four yellow jessamines, twenty-five of the Palinurus for hedges, forty-six pistacia nuts and seventy-five pyramidical cypress, which last were brought to him by the botanist Michaux from the King of France.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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He set out stocks of imported hawthorns, four yellow jessamines, twenty-five of the Palinurus for hedges, forty-six pistacia nuts and seventy-five pyramidical cypress, which last were brought to him by the botanist Michaux from the King of France.
George Washington Farmer Haworth, Paul L 1915
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-- The pistacia tree, which yields the eatable pistachio nuts.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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The gum, from the pistacia French researchers are calling into question the safety of a cosmetic procedure that offers to melt away fat without surgery, exercise
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a little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds.
The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867
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