resinous

adj — 2 senses

resinous

adj

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

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 accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

2

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Dated Negative (of electric charge).

Synonyms: resinlike, resiny, resinaceous, resinous
Antonyms: nonresinous, runny, watery
Derived terms: nonresinous, resinously, resinousness, semiresinous, subresinous
Hypernyms: viscous
Hyponyms: asphaltic, asphaltite, bituminous, pitchy, tarry

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