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resinous

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What does resinous mean?

adjective

  1. Of or relating to resin.
More meanings (1)

adjective

  1. (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.
Jean-Henri FabreBramble-Bees and OthersTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3421
Even the green limbs of the beech, which seemed to possess a resinous quality, burned readily in my great drum-stove.
Joshua SlocumSailing Alone Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #6317
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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.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe ForestProject Gutenberg ebook #9376
The air has a pungent fragrance which is peculiar to the desert, that is the mingled product of a variety of resinous plants.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756
Different fashions prevailed in different localities, and sinews, leather thongs, roughly plaited cords, creepers, and resinous substances were often pressed into the service.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309