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pistacia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pistacia has 1 sense
- pistacia(n = noun.plant) genus pistacia - a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit; Array is a kind of dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
is a member of anacardiaceae, family anacardiaceae, sumac family
CIDE DICTIONARY
pistacia, n. [NL. See Pistachio.].
The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio (Pistacia vera ), the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus ), and the species (Pistacia Terebinthus ) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine. [1913 Webster]
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