Pl. lentisci, lentiscus’s. [L.: see LENTISK.] = LENTISK.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxv. (1495), 619. Cypres is a medycynall tree and hyght Lentiscus by a nother name.

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1587.  Mascall, Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627), 85. The buds or branches of Lentiscus and wild oliue trees.

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1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort., March (1679), 13. Such Plants … as … Lentiscus, Myrtle-berries [etc.].

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1698.  M. Lister, Journ. Paris (1699), 204. Lentiscus’s and most other Greens, had suffered miserably.

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1717.  Berkeley, Lett. to Pope, 22 Oct. Thickets of myrtle and lentiscus.

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1884.  Mrs. C. Praed, Zéro, xiii. Foam dashed over the low undergrowth of lentiscus and myrtle.

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  Comb.  1882.  Garden, 23 Sept., 273/1. The Lentiscus-leaved Ash … is a medium-sized tree of somewhat upright habit.

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