Definition of Pistacia vera

1. Noun. Small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts.

Exact synonyms: Pistachio, Pistachio Tree
Terms within: Pistachio, Pistachio Nut
Group relationships: Genus Pistacia, Pistacia
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistacia Vera

Pisceans
Pisces
Pisces the Fishes
Piscidia
Piscidia erythrina
Piscidia piscipula
Piscis Australis
Piscis Austrinus
Pisgah
Pisidia
Pisistratus
Pisonia
Pisonia aculeata
Pistacia terebinthus
Pistacia vera
Pistia stratiotes
Pistia stratoites
Pistoia
Pisum
Pisum arvense
Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum arvense
Pisum sativum macrocarpon
Pita Pita
Pitcairn
Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairner
Pitcairners

Literary usage of Pistacia vera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"AND THE PISTACIA NUT (pistacia vera, Linn). " The garden of nuts " [walnuts].—SONG OF SOLOMON vi . 11. " Carry down...myrrh, nuts [pistacia nuts], ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"The pistacia vera is a native of Syria, Barbary, Persia, and Arabia. It was brought from Syria to Italy by the emperor Vitel- lius, in the lid century, ..."

3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"There is scarcely any allusion to the occurrence of the pistacia vera in Palestine amongst the writings of modern travellers. Dr. Hooker saw only two or ..."

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