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
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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary.
From The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir
The sacred island, I suppose, on the other side of a bridge of boats, covered with what seems a scrub of ilex and lentisk.
From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon
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