English > genus Pistacia: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit. |
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Synonym | Pistacia |
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Member of | Anacardiaceae, family Anacardiaceae, sumac family | The cashew family |
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Members | mastic, mastic tree, lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus | An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin |
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pistachio, Pistacia vera, pistachio tree | small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts |
terebinth, Pistacia terebinthus | A Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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Spanish | genus pistacia, pistacia |
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Catalan | genus pistacia, pistacia |
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