resinous

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

resinous (comparative more resinous, superlative most resinous)

1. Of or relating to resin.

   Synonym: resinaceous

   • 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

     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. (physics, dated) Negative (of electric charge).

   Antonym: vitreous

Derived terms

• resinously
• resinousness

Translations

of or pertaining to resin

Bulgarian: смолист (bg) (smolist) Catalan: resinós (ca) Finnish: pihkainen German: harzig Ingrian: pihkain, ruakas Irish: roisíneach Italian: resinoso (it) Latin: rēsīnōsus Polish: żywiczny (pl), żywicowy (pl) Romanian: rășinos (ro) Russian: смоли́стый (ru) (smolístyj) Spanish: resinoso Swedish: kådig Turkish: çıralı (tr)

Anagrams

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