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Meanings of mastic tree in English

An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin.

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        Examples for "mastic"
        Examples for "mastic"
        1
        And we smoke the cups with one of those burning sticks of mastic.
        Bella Donna: A Novel
        2
        The smoky fragrance of the renowned mastic rose, dense and compelling.
        Helen of troy
        3
        They were thickly wooded, and we thought we found cinnamon, aloes and mastic.
        1492
        4
        Thrice during the forenoon I am accosted with the invitation mastic?
        Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
        5
        Tufts of tamarinds, myrtles, and mastic-trees, such as are produced in the temperate zone.
        Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery
        1
        Nearer the shore the lentisk grows, a savory shrub, with cytisus and aromatic rosemary.
        The Pleasures of Life
        2
        And she led him to a tall plane-tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather-bushes.
        The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
        3
        Mountain and valley, oak wood and ilex grove, lentisk thicket and winding river-bed, are drowned alike in soft-descending, soaking rain.
        Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete / Series I, I...
        4
        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.
        Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
        5
        The yellow wall-flower does not grow here, but instead, one finds nettles and lentisks, greenish moss and lichens.
        Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany
        Usage of mastic tree in English
        1
        He answered: Under a mastic tree.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
        2
        Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        3
        On the border of it stood a tall mastic tree with a lightning-blasted top and many branches which made it easy to climb.
        Dick in the Everglades
        4
        One goes as best one can over hill and dale through dwarf palms and mastic trees.
        Tartarin De Tarascon