The fine flowers measure four inches across, with bright yellow rays, deeper yellow centers, and bronze, rough, rather resinous involucres.
There are only a few kinds of Adenostoma, evergreen shrubs, with small, narrow, resinous leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.
He found that when equal weights of phenol and formaldehyde were mixed and warmed in the presence of an alkaline catalytic agent the solution separated into two layers, the upper aqueous and the lower a resinous precipitate.
This means simply that amber, like all such resinous substances, natural or artificial, is a non-conductor or di-electric and does not carry off and scatter the electricity collected on the surface by the friction.
Resinous woods such as pine and fir distilled with steam give turpentine and rosin.
So we went into the hut taking the stools with us, and seated ourselves by the fire that burned there on to which Umslopogaas threw chips of resinous wood.
A branch of resinous wood of which the stem had been eaten through by the flames, fell upon the ashes of the fire and burnt up with a brilliant light.
Our fire was principally of wet rhododendron wood, with masses of the aromatic dwarf species, which, being full of resinous glands, blazed with fury.
He could smell the clean resinous scent of them and it seemed to him that they were singing wild, barbaric songs.
The sun had just dipped; it was wonderfully fresh and cool, and a sweet resinous smell drifted out of the forest behind them.
They got out and ran her up, filled their kettle at a tinkling creek, hewed resinous chips from a fallen fir, and built a fire.
Nothing else, however, seemed to move, and the air was filled with a languorous, resinous smell.
Its basis is resin lac, a compound resinous substance exuded from an East India scale insect (Carteria lacca) found mostly in the province of Assam.
Grôm hurriedly whirled the smoldering torch into a flame, and from it lighted a couple of resinous brands, one for himself, and one for A-ya to carry.
Each fire had been laid, on the inner side, with dry faggots of a resinous wood which not only blazed freely but held the flame tenaciously.
The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.
It is found either deeply buried in the bowels of the earth, or floating on the sea, and is supposed to be a resinous body which has been acted on by sulphuric acid, as its analysis shows it to consist of ah oil and an acid.
The durability of this species of wood is chiefly owing to the resinous nature of its peculiar juices.
These consist of resinous juices combined with a peculiar acid, called the benzoic acid.
He took his axe and cut a few sticks from the root, then used his knife to make a sliver-fuzz of each; one piece, so resinousthat it would not whittle, he smashed with the back of the axe into a lot of matchwood.
The small, earth-floored room was dry and warm, and smelt pleasantly of resinous wood.
A big fire was soon lighted, and when the resinous wood broke into snapping flame Festing cleared a spot farther on for another.
A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from guttaÐpercha by the action of alcohol or ether.
A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume.
In burning wood man noticed that a resinous or fatty material increased the inflammability and added greatly to the amount of light emitted.
Nevertheless, pine knots and similar resinous pieces of wood eventually were favored as torches and their use has persisted until the present time.
For example, the Malays made a torch by wrapping resinous gum in palm leaves, thus devising a crude candle with the wick on the outside.
It is a matter of conjecture how much time elapsed before his feeble intellect became aware that resinous wood afforded a better light-source than woods which were less inflammable.
If resinous substances were used in the formation of a pill it does not follow that they would necessarily be found in the stomach; they might be passed off.
He was scarcely able to get out of the water and run up the mountain side, lighting his way with the torch of resinous wood he had used in order to attract the fish while fishing.
Strong-smelling, resinous juices exude from the remaining leaves and stems, and form a surface varnish through which water passes with difficulty.
He left her playing there, and all the way through the dim resinous spruce wood her music followed him like an invisible guardian spirit.
They furnish also quantities of turpentine, pitch, tar, and oil, products of the resinous sap which saturates the wood of these trees while they are growing.
The resinous sap seems to ooze out through pores along the hairy leaf veins.
The heavy, resinous wood does not easily take fire as do the pitch pines.
The heavy, resinous wood lasts a long time in the ground.
The common name, "pitch pine," refers to the resinous wood; it is much harder to work with than that of soft pines.
The resinousodour grew stronger every moment, and at last Prudence detected the smell of smoke.
The odour of resinous wood, so strong as to be sickly, came to her, and its pungency was not the ordinary scent of the forest about her.
And he realized what a blessing the deluge of rain was in that world of resinous timber.
The sicklyresinous smell told her what had happened.
The milk frothing up and assuming a pink tinge is often the first sign of red water, and it may result from eating acrid or irritant plants, like the Ranunculaceæ, resinous plants, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resinous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
