terebinthus

Lower elevations and river canyons, such as the central Duero Basin on the border of Spain and Portugal, are characterized by sclerophyllous broadleaf species (Quercus ilex ballota, Olea europaea, and Pistacia terebinthus).

Northwest Iberian montane forests 2008

Evergreen trees, mainly holm oak (Quercus ilex) and Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), and maquis shrubs (Pistacia terebinthus, Rhamnus alaternus, Phillyrea latifolia, Arbutus unedo) become predominant at the lower altitudes near the coast.

Illyrian deciduous forests 2007

The turpentine tree (_Pistacia terebinthus_ L.) has existed in our island for many centuries, judging from the enormous dimensions of some of these trees, compared, too, with their slow rate of growth.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

Pistachio, Heb. botnim (Gen., xliii, 11), probably refers to the nut-fruits of Pistacia vera, very common in Palestine; yet Arab. butm is applied to Pistacia terebinthus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

(R.V. marg. of Deut. 11: 30, etc.), the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists; a tree very common in the south and east of

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

It is the Pistacia terebinthus, terebinth tree, common in Palestine and the East.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The Silky Leaf-cutter gathers the materials for her pots, her lids and her barricades from the following plants: paliurus, hawthorn, vine, wild briar, bramble, holm-oak, amelanchier, terebinthus, sage-leaved rock-rose.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The first was that of two remarkable trees, -- the _Pistacia terebinthus_ and the _Pistacia atlantica; _ the next, the thorny acacia, from which we got the substitute for nails.

The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Johann David Wyss 1780

[491] Patmos, from בטמוס, batmos, terebinthus; for trees of this sort, he says, grew in the Cyclades.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

(an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6: 13, the terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897