lentisk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lentisk
1375–1425; late Middle English lentiske < Latin lentīscus
Example Sentences
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Rotten seaweed pulled from the shore and resin pressed from lentisk, a tree mentioned in “Don Quixote,” are also part of his quest for local scents.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
Thus, for instance, one branch of a tree bore leaves like those of a cane, another branch of the same tree, leaves similar to those of the lentisk.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary.
From The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock
Soon the gardens cease, and lentisk, rosemary, box, and ilex—shrubs of Provence—with here and there a sumach out of reach, cling to the hard stone.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Most of the hills through which they strike, after starting from Ajaccio, are clothed with a thick brushwood of box, ilex, lentisk, arbutus, and laurustinus, which stretches down irregularly into vineyards, olive-gardens, and meadows.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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