Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pistacia"
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) 1.7 (wn)
Pistacia
n : a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae
having drupaceous fruit [syn: {Pistacia}, {genus Pistacia}]
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