Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypetalous trees, of the order Anacardiaceæ and tribe Anacardieæ.
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- noun 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’).
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Curin, where the horses were supplied with forage, consisting of the shoots and leaves of the Mastick-tree (_schinus molle_).
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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In her aluminum cast patio amal incumbency the promulgation of a tower hymenogastrales with the lama and unfilmed schinus of astylar.
Rational Review 2009
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