resinous

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

resinous (comparative more resinous, superlative most resinous)

1. Of or relating to resin.
   • 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 .

   Synonym: resinaceous

2. (physics, dated) Negative (of electric charge).

   Antonym: vitreous

Derived terms

• resinously
• resinousness

Translations

of or pertaining to resin

• Bulgarian: смолист (bg) (smolist)
• Catalan: resinós (ca)
• Finnish: pihkainen
• Ingrian: pihkain, ruakas
• Irish: roisíneach
• Italian: resinoso (it)
• Latin: rēsīnōsus
• Polish: żywiczny (pl), żywicowy (pl)
• Romanian: rășinos (ro)
• Russian: смоли́стый (ru) (smolístyj)
• Spanish: resinoso
• Swedish: kådig
• Turkish: çıralı (tr)

Anagrams

• neurosis, seniours