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单词 pistacia
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pistacian.

Brit. /pɪˈsteɪʃ(ɪ)ə/, U.S. /pəˈsteɪʃ(i)ə/
Forms: late Middle English– pistacia, 1500s piscatia, 1500s pistacea, 1600s–1800s pistachia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pistacia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pistacia (see pistachio n.).
1.
a. Originally: the pistachio tree, Pistacia vera. Later also (in form Pistacia): a genus of the family Anacardiaceae comprising trees and large shrubs native to the Mediterranean region, central and western Asia, and North and Central America, and including a number of species valued for their edible seeds and resins, such as the pistachio, the mastic tree P. lentiscus, and the terebinth, P. terebinthus; (also pistacia) a member of this genus.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 1025.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > pistachio > pistachio nut tree
pistachio tree?1440
pistacia?1440
fistic tree1548
pistacia tree1731
pistacia nut tree1797
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 685 (MED) Pistacia is graffed now to growe In cold lond.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 255 The Pistacia sends forth its Branches on high, and renders its Nuts edible in Autumn.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Terebinthus In this manner these plants should be treated for three or four years, while young, after which time the Pistachia's may be planted into the full ground.
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2443/2 Pistachia, in botany, a genus of the dioecia-pentandria class of plants, having no corolla.
1814 J. E. Smith Introd. Bot. xx. 239 The same has long been practised, and is continued to this very day in the Levant, upon the Pistacia, and the Fig.
1871 H. Macmillan True Vine (1872) v. 197 The Pistacia grows abundantly in the south of France, but it yields no mastic.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 879/1 The bony shell (endocarp) of P. rera, unlike that of other Pistacia species, splits partly along the ventral suture.
2000 Land (N. Richmond, New S. Wales) 1 June (Mag. Suppl.) 12/2 My stand-by tree for autumn display, the Chinese pistacia (P. chinensis..) obviously prefers drier weather.
b. A pistachio nut. (Frequently with plural agreement or as a mass noun.) Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > pistachio
pistachio nut?1440
fistic1548
pistacia1548
pistake1591
pistick nut1621
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > pistachio
pistachio nut?1440
fistic1548
pistacia1548
pistake1591
pistick nut1621
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.iijv Pistacia are called of the poticaries Fistica, they may be called in english Fistikes or Festike nuttes.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. L iv v Oyle of nuts..of ye kinde yt are called Pistacea.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dvij Piscatia the pound vi.d.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 247 Philberts, Haslenuts, Pistachias.
1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica 495 The Pistachia is..of an oblong Figure, pointed at both Ends,..about half an Inch in Length..the Kernel..of a green Colour, of a soft and unctuous Substance..much like the Pulp of an Almond.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. v. 156 The cases from the pistacias are..mammelated, light, with a turpentine flavour.
1991 Descant Summer 186 The French chemist Loret has suggested that its [sc. the Egyptian incense kuphi] chief constituents were calamus, cassia, cinnamon, peppermint, citronella, pistacia [etc.].
2. hazel-leaved pistacia n. [ < an early botanical name for the plant, Pistacia virginiana nigra, coryli foliis] the witch hazel Hamamelis virginiana. Obsolete. rare.
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Pistacia, Hazel-leaved, Hamamelis.

Compounds

pistacia nut n. a pistachio nut; (also) the pistachio tree.
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Pistacia Nut.
1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) xix. 319 Pistachia nut, or com. turpentine tree, &c.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 879/2 [Pistachio] vera L., Pistachio, Green Almond, Pistacia Nut.
2003 Jrnl. Hort. Sci. & Biotechnol. 78 35 Dehulled pistacia nuts were stratified and treated..and then germinated on plates.
pistacia nut tree n. Obsolete the pistachio, Pistacia vera.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > pistachio > pistachio nut tree
pistachio tree?1440
pistacia?1440
fistic tree1548
pistacia tree1731
pistacia nut tree1797
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 777/2 The second sort..may also be raised from the seed in the manner already directed for the pistachia-nut tree.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 662 The Pistacia nut tree extends from Syria to Bokhara and Cabul.
pistacia tree n. the pistachio, Pistacia vera; (also) any of various other trees of the genus Pistacia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > pistachio > pistachio nut tree
pistachio tree?1440
pistacia?1440
fistic tree1548
pistacia tree1731
pistacia nut tree1797
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Terebinthus Terebinthus; Indica, Theophrasti, Pistachia Dioscoridis... The Pistachia-tree.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 81 Atlantic Pistachia-tree, a small tree from Barbary in 1790.
1967 Jrnl. Ecol. 55 423 A lone Pistacia tree occurred near each site.
2002 Turkish Jrnl. Zool. 26 305 The male specimen [sc. a spider] used in the study was collected on a Pistacia tree.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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