Dictionary entry

Pistacia

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Pis‐ta″ci‐a (?), n. [NL. See Pistachio.] (Bot.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.