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Resiny

Resiny \Res"in*y\ (-?), a. Like resin; resinous.

Wiktionary
resiny

a. 1 Like resin; resinous. 2 Of, or pertaining to, resin.

WordNet
resiny

adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: pitchy, resinous, tarry]

Usage examples of "resiny".

It was little taller than her forefinger, made of thick opaque blue glass decorated with a white, twisted design and the stopper was sealed in place with some kind of resiny wax.

She spun round, scanning the room and then she spotted it on the floor, near the shower room door, a thin scattering of brown resiny fragments.

And then she gets to smell the splendid smell of him, the slightly damp cottony resiny vegetable smell.

Coming from behind them, the wind carried the thick salt scent of the Roxbury Flats, wood smoke from three thousand houses, and the resiny perfume of pitch from the shipyards.

She imagined a painting of that aisle of sandy road, climbing through the tall resiny grove.

There is an enveloping smell, a resiny odor not unlike marijuana, the sharp smell that comes off an expensive beer.

One morning she woke to the sharp, resiny scent of the forest, and when she got out of bed to trace itand Lukeshe found him flat on his back in a corner of the main room, muttering softly to himself as he worked at the base of a small and very fat fir.

And down by the torrent, on a faint game trail that led upstream, was a piece of emerald-green fluff stuck to the resiny trunk of a pine.

The rich, resiny scent of frankincense and myrrh calmed him with familiar memories.

There was a smell of perfume still in the air, and the resiny, animal smell, and the smell of the mystical sea, and the sweet cloaking smell of hair all riled up by sex.

The balcony of his old apartment, with Maria, young and dark-haired, and Alekos playing with toy soldiers at their feet, the sweet resiny smell of a summer dusk in Athens.

The sweet, resiny smell of the pines, for instance, and the way the clouds seemed so close - less like clouds than like draggles of whitish-gray smoke.