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Definition of Resiny
1. Adjective. Having the characteristics of pitch or tar.
Definition of Resiny
1. a. Like resin; resinous.
Definition of Resiny
1. Adjective. Like resin; resinous. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, resin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resiny
1. resinous [adj] - See also: resinous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resiny
Literary usage of Resiny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"There are places that have a local name from being such rocks ; but the word is
applied to such rocks occurring anywhere. It is written resiny on some ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... when so many balsamic buds and leaves are steeped like tea; but from the
chafing of resiny branches against each other, and the incessant attrition of ..."
3. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"good lasting fire of resiny silver-fir roots, and a leafy bed beside it. I now
told him I would run down the mountain, hasten back with help from the boat, ..."
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