How To Use resinous In A Sentence
- The leaves of the notorious North American native Nicotiana tabacum, a relative of the potato and tomato, are harvested when they begin to turn yellow and develop resinous secretions, then either sun-cured or fermented in heaps for several weeks, and dried by contact with hot metal. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- His fricassee of snails contains the spicy Japanese condiment red yuzu kosho, local fiddlehead ferns and resinous Greek mastic infused with English peas. Snails Quicken Their Culinary Pace
- The large buds of mountain ash and poplars have a sticky, resinous covering that partially protects them from hungry animals.
- The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch. Handwork in Wood
- Another note that stands out is that of labdanum, a resinous, ambery oleoresin from the rockrose bushes also grown on the Mediterranean mountains and hillsides and a pulsating undercurrent of costus, with its musky goat-like horns that is perhaps the reason why Pan jumps into the picture. Archive 2008-06-01
- This is an aromatic, resinous substance that is extracted from the wood of certain trees or plants, especially those belonging to the terebinthine group or family. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- It was a resinous substance, chunked up, nubbed up. Underworld
- These rewards include pseudopollen, wax or a viscid, resinous material secreted by the labellum and floral nectar.
- They contain tannin, and a resinous camphire, which is common to most of the mints affording essential oils. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- An exceptionally hot summer, following a winter drought, has made the resinous pine forests particularly flammable.
