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pistacia


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pistacia  \Pis*ta"ci*a\,  n.  [NL.  See  {Pistachio}.]  (Bot.) 
  The  name  of  a  genus  of  trees,  including  the  tree  which  bears 
  the  pistachio,  the  Mediterranean  mastic  tree  ({Pistacia 
  Lentiscus}),  and  the  species  ({P.  Terebinthus})  which  yields 
  Chian  or  Cyprus  turpentine. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Pistacia 
  n  :  a  dicotyledonous  genus  of  trees  of  the  family  Anacardiaceae 
  having  drupaceous  fruit  [syn:  {Pistacia},  {genus  Pistacia}] 




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