Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentisks
Literary usage of Lentisks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"Their mouths are partly overgrown with lentisks and other shrubs; ... A revma,
covered with lentisks and oleanders, stretches hence to the sea. ..."
2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"... island were held to be the property of the Grand Signor, and if any land was
sold, the sale did not include the lentisks that might be growing on it. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1871)
"... its flanks are very steep, intersected by ravines, and dotted rather than
clothed with small junipers, lentisks, and other brushwood. ..."
4. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"Sheep live chiefly upon grass, but may depend also upon shrubs and dry bushes:
the bushy growths (lentisks, myrtles, etc.) which cover the dry slopes and ..."
5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"Tourne- | fort has given a full and very interesting account of the lentisks or
mastic plants of Scio (Chios). ..."
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