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GENUS PISTACIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit
Synonyms:
genus Pistacia; Pistacia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pistacia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pistacia"):
pistachio; pistachio tree; Pistacia vera (small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts)
Pistacia terebinthus; terebinth (a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine)
lentisk; mastic; mastic tree; Pistacia lentiscus (an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin)
Holonyms ("genus Pistacia" is a member of...):
Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)
