pistacia

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Pistacia
    n 1: a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae
         having drupaceous fruit [syn: {Pistacia}, {genus Pistacia}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pistacia \Pis*ta"ci*a\, n. [NL. See {Pistachio}.] (Bot.)
   The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears
   the pistachio ({Pistacia vera}), the Mediterranean mastic
   tree ({Pistacia Lentiscus}), and the species ({Pistacia
   Terebinthus}) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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