Pl. lentisci, lentiscuss. [L.: see LENTISK.] = LENTISK.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxv. (1495), 619. Cypres is a medycynall tree and hyght Lentiscus by a nother name.
1587. Mascall, Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627), 85. The buds or branches of Lentiscus and wild oliue trees.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort., March (1679), 13. Such Plants as Lentiscus, Myrtle-berries [etc.].
1698. M. Lister, Journ. Paris (1699), 204. Lentiscuss and most other Greens, had suffered miserably.
1717. Berkeley, Lett. to Pope, 22 Oct. Thickets of myrtle and lentiscus.
1884. Mrs. C. Praed, Zéro, xiii. Foam dashed over the low undergrowth of lentiscus and myrtle.
Comb. 1882. Garden, 23 Sept., 273/1. The Lentiscus-leaved Ash is a medium-sized tree of somewhat upright habit.