An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin.
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Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary.
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And she led him to a tall plane-tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather-bushes.
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Mountain and valley, oak wood and ilex grove, lentisk thicket and winding river-bed, are drowned alike in soft-descending, soaking rain.
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Soon the gardens cease, and lentisk, rosemary, box, and ilex-shrubsof Provence-withhere and there a sumach out of reach, cling to the hard stone.
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The yellow wall-flower does not grow here, but instead, one finds nettles and lentisks, greenish moss and lichens.