pistacia

• The early 6th-Century manuscript De observatione ciborum (On the observance of foods) by Anthimus implies that pistachio nuts ( "pistacia" in vulgar Latin) were well known in Europe by late Roman times. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
• -- The pistacia tree, which yields the eatable pistachio nuts. —  Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
• Mastich, pistacia lentiscus. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• The secretions from various vegetable glands hardened in the air produce gums, resins, and various kinds of saccharine, saponaceous, and wax-like substances, as the gum of cherry or plumb-trees, gum tragacanth from the astragalus tragacantha, camphor from the laurus camphora, elemi from amyris elemifera, aneme from hymenoea courbaril, turpentine from pistacia terebinthus, balsam of Mecca from the buds of amyris opobalsamum, branches of which are placed in the temples of the East on account of their fragrance, the wood is called xylobalsamum, and the fruit carpobalsamum; aloe from a plant of the same name; myrrh from a plant not yet described; the remarkably elastic resin is brought into —  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
• He set out stocks of imported hawthorns, four yellow jessamines, twenty-five of the Palinurus for hedges, forty-six pistacia nuts and seventy-five pyramidical cypress, which last were brought to him by the botanist Michaux from the King of France. —  George Washington: Farmer

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