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Resinous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to resin.

    "Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state ."

  2. 2
    Negative (of electric charge). dated
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the characteristics of pitch or tar wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous.

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