Definition of Accroides

1. Noun. An alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper.


Definition of Accroides

1. Noun. acaroid resin ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accroides

accrewing
accrews
accriminate
accriminated
accriminates
accriminating
accrimination
accriminations
accroach
accroached
accroaches
accroaching
accroachment
accroachments
accrochage
accroides (current term)
accroides gum
accroides resin
accruable
accrual
accrual basis
accrual bond
accruals
accrue
accrued
accruement
accruements
accruer
accrues
accruing

Literary usage of Accroides

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

1. Painters' Colours, Oils, and Varnishes: A Practical Manual by George Henry Hurst (1892)
"accroides or xan- ... Other resins, as animi and amber, are hard and difficult to break up; others again, as accroides, rosin, &c., are brittle and easily ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1890)
"... seeds of the box-elder (Negando accroides), and the berries of several species of juniper. Carpodacus cassini. CASSIN'S PURPLE FINCH. ..."

3. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"... (ii) Alnus glutinosa; (B) Platanus accroides (JO. America, and of Caucasian and eastern Asia, including Japan. There is evidence, however, that a marked ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1898)
"... E. & B. On bark of dead limbs of Negundo accroides, August, 1894 ( Bartholomew). L. c., 23. 195. ..."

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