An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin.
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And we smoke the cups with one of those burning sticks of mastic.
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The smoky fragrance of the renowned mastic rose, dense and compelling.
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They were thickly wooded, and we thought we found cinnamon, aloes and mastic.
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Thrice during the forenoon I am accosted with the invitation mastic?
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Tufts of tamarinds, myrtles, and mastic-trees, such as are produced in the temperate zone.
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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.
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He answered: Under a mastic tree.
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Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
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On the border of it stood a tall mastic tree with a lightning-blasted top and many branches which made it easy to climb.
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One goes as best one can over hill and dale through dwarf palms and mastic trees.