lentisk

[len-tisk]

noun

1. mastic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lentisk¹

1375–1425; late Middle English lentiske < Latin lentīscus

Example Sentences

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.

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It is now completely destitute of trees, but it abounds with brushwood of lentisk and cistus, and here and there affords a patch of corn-land to the occasional sower from Myconus.

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A sound of harmonium and girls' hymn issuing out of the ruin, on which grow against the sky great tufts of fennel, of stuff like London pride and of budding lentisk.

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Round about her were huddled the drowsy boys; on the slopes of the steep place where she lay she could see the goats browsing on lentisk and juniper, acanthus, bramble, mountain-ash.

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There we reclined on deep beds of fragrant lentisk, and rejoicing we lay in new-stripped leaves of the vine.

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