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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: resine, from Latin, from Greek rhetine

resin

 noun
     
Related topics: Plants, Plastics, Material, Textiles
res‧in
1 [uncountable]HBP a thick sticky liquid that comes out of some trees [↪ sap]
2 [uncountable and countable]HCPTIM a type of plastic
—resinous adjective
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