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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of polypetalous trees, of the order Anacardiaceæ and tribe Anacardieæ. It is characterized by diœcious flowers with unaltered calyx, five imbricated petals, ten stamens, three styles, and a one-celled ovary with a single ovule pendulous from near the summit of the cell, and becoming in fruit a globose wingless drupe resembling a pea, containing a leathery or bony stone penetrated by oil-tubes. There are about 13 species, natives of warmer parts of South America and Australia. They are trees or shrubs with alternate and odd-pinnate leaves, and small white flowers in axillary and terminal bracted panicles. For S. Molle, see
peppertree , 1; and for S. terebinthifolius, seearoeira .
WordNet 3.0
- n. genus of evergreen shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America and Canary Islands and China
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“[39] Jerome in his Prol.gal. shews how it might be done in Latin; and in the Vulgate some attempt is made to reproduce it in vv. 54, 56 (‘schinus, scindit’).”
“Curin, where the horses were supplied with forage, consisting of the shoots and leaves of the Mastick-tree (_schinus molle_).”
“In her aluminum cast patio amal incumbency the promulgation of a tower hymenogastrales with the lama and unfilmed schinus of astylar.”
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