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resin (iou) and heteropteran (iou)


resin (iou)



resin noun & verb. LME.
[Latin resina, medieval Latin rosinum, rosina cogn. with Greek rhetine resin from a pine. Cf. ROSIN.]
A. noun.
Any hard, sticky, flammable, freq. aromatic substance containing organic polymers and terpenoids, secreted by various trees and Other plants, often extracted by incision esp. from fir and pine, and, unlike a gum, insoluble in water; a kind of this. LME.
A resinous precipitate obtained by chemical treatment of various natural products. rare. L17.
Any synthetic material resembling a natural resin; now usu., any of a large and varied class of synthetic organic polymers (solid or liquid) that are thermosetting or thermoplastic and are used esp. as the chief ingredients of plastics (more fully synthetic resin). Freq. with Other specifying words. L19.
Comb.: resin-bush = HARPUISBOS; resin canal an intercellular resin-containing duct found in the wood and leaves of conifers; resin-weed = rosinweed s.v. ROSIN noun.
b. verb trans. Rub or treat with resin. M19.
resi'naceous adjective (rare) of the Nature of or yielding resin; resinous: M17.
resined adjective (a) treated with resin; (b) (of wood) having had the resin extracted: L19.
re'sinic adjective of, belonging to, or derived from resin L19.
resi'niferous adjective yielding or containing resin L17.
resiny adjective resinous L16.

heteropteran (iou)



heteropteran noun & adjective. M19.
[from mod. Latin Heteroptera (see below), formed as HETERO- + Greek pteron wing: see -AN.]
Entomology.
A. noun. Any hemipteran insect of the suborder Heteroptera, which comprises the true bugs, i.e. those whose wings, where present, have hardened bases and membranous tips. Cf. HOMOPTERAN. M19.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the suborder Heteroptera. E20.
heteropterous adjective = HETEROPTERAN adjective L19.