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Definition of Pistacia vera
1. Noun. Small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts.
Terms within: Pistachio, Pistachio Nut
Group relationships: Genus Pistacia, Pistacia
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistacia Vera
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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