pinite

English

noun
Definitions
  • Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.
  • (chemistry) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (, sugar pine), isomeric with quercite.

Etymology

Suffix from English pine.

Origin

English

pine

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