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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous.
Adjective
resinous (comparative more resinous, superlative most resinous)
- Of or relating to resin.
- Synonym: resinaceous
1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205: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 .
- (physics, dated) Negative (of electric charge).
- Antonym: vitreous
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to resin
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