PISTACIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pistacia mean? 

• PISTACIA (noun)
  The noun PISTACIA has 1 sense:

1. a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit

  Familiarity information: PISTACIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PISTACIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pistacia; Pistacia

Hypernyms ("Pistacia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Pistacia"):

pistachio; pistachio tree; Pistacia vera (small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts)

Pistacia terebinthus; terebinth (a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine)

lentisk; mastic; mastic tree; Pistacia lentiscus (an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin)

Holonyms ("Pistacia" is a member of...):

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the fruit of Pistacia vera.

(Pistachio Oil, NCI Thesaurus)