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resinous
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What does resinous mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to resin.
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adjective
- (dated) Negative (of electric charge).
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From these characteristics it is evident that the Bee prepares her gum with the resinous drops exuded by the Coniferae.
Even the green limbs of the beech, which seemed to possess a resinous quality, burned readily in my great drum-stove.
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Then some of the small, dry, resinous branches that stick out from the trunks of medium-sized pines, living or dead.
The air has a pungent fragrance which is peculiar to the desert, that is the mingled product of a variety of resinous plants.
Different fashions prevailed in different localities, and sinews, leather thongs, roughly plaited cords, creepers, and resinous substances were often pressed into the service.