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resinous

resinous adjective: of or relating to resin.

Adjective

resinous (comparative more resinous, superlative most resinous)

  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...1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205
    Synonyms:
    resinaceous
  2. (dated) Negative (of electric charge).
    Antonyms:
    vitreous

Synonyms of resinous

Antonyms

Forms of resinous

comparativemore resinous
superlativemost resinous

Origin of resinous

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

Words formed from resinous

Questions about resinous

What does resinous mean?
Resinous means of or relating to resin.
What part of speech is resinous?
Resinous is an adjective.

Words near resinous in the dictionary

  1. resinoids
  2. resinoses
  3. resinoside
  4. resinosides
  5. resinosis
  6. resinous
  7. resinously
  8. resinousness
  9. resins
  10. resinter
  11. resintered

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