lentisk

[ len-tisk ]

noun

1. mastic ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of lentisk¹

1375–1425; late Middle English lentiske < Latin lentīscus

Example Sentences

Zanchine was digging up a lentisk when he heard a 'wow, wow'; he looked, and there was a baby, only a few days old.

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Mastic, Mastich, mas′tik, n. a species of gum-resin from the lentisk-tree: a cement from mastic: the tree producing mastic.

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My goats eat cytisus, and goatswort, and tread the lentisk shoots, and lie at ease among the arbutus.

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There we reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, lowly strown, and rejoicing we lay in new stript leaves of the vine.

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Now Pentheus from a lofty cliff was watching p. 145all, deep hidden in an ancient lentisk hush, a plant of that land.

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