Word Meanings - RESINOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat like resin.

Related words: (words related to RESINOID)

• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• RESIN
  Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• RESINOUSNESS
  The quality of being resinous.
• RESINOUS
  Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
• RESINATE
  Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
• RESINOID
  Somewhat like resin.
• RESINIFEROUS
  Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.
• RESINO-ELECTRIC
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
• RESINIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.
• RESINY
  Like resin; resinous.
• RESINOUSLY
  By means, or in the manner, of resin.
• RESINACEOUS
  Having the quality of resin; resinous.
• OLEORESIN
  A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.
• KAURI RESIN; KAURI GUM; KAURI COPAL
  A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.
• CERESIN
  A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.