resinous
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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
But the epitome of crack seed, its quintessential preparation, is li hing mui, for which dried plums are plunged in a licorice-laced brew until they take on the root’s resinous sweetness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
Combustible natural products inevitably make themselves noticed, as when a resinous log explodes in a campfire.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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