Resinous
['rezɪnəs] or ['rɛzɪnəs]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.
Edited by Enrico
Examples
- Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Dufay had recognized two sorts of electricity, obtained by rubbing a glass rod and a stick of resin, and had spoken of t hem as vitreous and resinous. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a single fact only:--The Greeks discovered that amber, a resinous substance, when rubbed would attract lighter bodies to it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The wine was good, tasting faintly resinous from the wineskin, but excellent, light and clean on his tongue. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Enrico