Pistacia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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