What is "pistacia"

Pistacia \Pis*ta"ci*a\, n. [NL. See Pistachio.] (Bot.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio ( Pistacia vera), the Mediterranean mastic tree ( Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species ( Pistacia Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

n. (context botany English) Any of the tree genus ''Pistacia'', including the pistachio.

Pistacia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It contains 10 to 20 species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, all of Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semidesert areas across Asia, and North America from Mexico to warm and semidesert United States, such as Texas or California.