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Examples of resinous
resinous
The color is a black or dark-brown, and it has a greasy-looking, resinous luster.
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Incredible black IPA with spruce, like a forest of bitter hops and resinous pine.
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Birdsong and heady, resinous smells emanate from scrubby bushes and stunted trees.
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The Alps could be seen in the east, their snow surreal in the hot, resinous light.
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It's an evergreen, so the needles and stems can be resinous, similar to pine.
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Concretes are typically either waxy or resinous solids or thick oily liquids.
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Chocolate, resinous herbs, walnut oil, and beef stock all add to its appeal.
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More of a seed than a nut, it is resonant with fat and slightly resinous in flavour.
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Cardamom has a strong, unique taste, with an intensely aromatic, resinous fragrance.
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- Pitchy: having the characteristics of pitch or tar
- Resin is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees. It is valued for its chemical properties and associated uses, such as the production of varnishes, adhesives, and food glazing agents; as an important source of raw materials for organic synthesis; and as ...
- Of, or pertaining to, resin
- Having a luster resembling that of natural resin.
- The luster of resin: sphalerite and sulfur
- A liquid secreted from trees, resin helps to plug cracks and holes in the bark much like your body producing a scab. These woods tend to give off a resinous and sometimes toxic aroma making them unsuitable for cooking.
- The turpentine odour of retsina wine. It is literally imparted by the addition of resin.
- A type of luster exhibited on gemstones like amber.
- 1. See resin blister 2. See conifer
