pistacia

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pistacia - 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]

pistacia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Pistacia
      n 1: a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae
           having drupaceous fruit [syn: Pistacia, genus Pistacia]