resinous

Example Sentences

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The smell of traditional resinous copal incense hung heavy over the parade.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

Bornstein is more poetic: “The resinous leaves have an intoxicating fragrance.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

Regular paper only uses certain bits of wood, but kraft paper uses all types of wood including resinous pine, which is typically left out when creating regular paper products.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

The needles are a deep green, tough, resinous, and closely bunched, in groups of five.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

Will snapped off a twig, and the piney resinous smell stayed strongly on his fingers.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman