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That sticky kiss of pine that turns your fingers into accidental flypaper.
means Having the sticky, sappy, aromatic quality of resin — the tacky stuff that oozes from pines and other trees.
from From "resin," which travels back through Old French "resine" to Latin "resina," itself borrowed from Greek "rhetine," the word for the gum of pine trees. The "-y" is the plain English suffix that turns a noun into "full of" or "like" it — so "resiny" is simply "resin-ish," the trees' sticky signature made into an adjective.
- amber origin
- Resin trapping insects hardens into million-year-old amber.
- violin secret
- Rosin, dried resin, makes bow hairs grip strings.
- wound healing
- Trees ooze resin to seal and disinfect injuries.
- frankincense
- Sacred incense is just fragrant tree resin tears.
- fossil fuel
- Ancient resin and plant matter became today's amber and coal.
amber from the baltic — fossilized tree resin, 30-90 million years old, mined in lithuania and poland
frankincense from oman — aromatic resin from boswellia sacra trees, harvested in dhofar region for 5,000+ years
dragon's blood from socotra — deep red resin from dracaena cinnabari trees, endemic to yemen's socotra island