lentisk

Historical Examples

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

  Theocritus

  Theocritus

• The dunes were covered with thick bushes of lentisk, myrtle and similar shrubs; every step bruised some scented thing.

  The Spirit of Rome

  Vernon Lee

• Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary.

  Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2)

  John Addington Symonds

• The sacred island, I suppose, on the other side of a bridge of boats, covered with what seems a scrub of ilex and lentisk.

  The Spirit of Rome

  Vernon Lee

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

  After the Divorce

  Grazia Deledda