RESIN
What does "RESIN" mean?
A sticky substance from plants or made synthetically, used in varnishes, plastics, and adhesives.
Meanings
- A sticky, often fragrant substance secreted by some trees and plants, used in varnishes, incense, and adhesives. Amber is fossilized tree resin millions of years old.
- A synthetic polymer of similar properties, used to make plastics, coatings, and casts. She poured clear epoxy resin over the wooden tabletop. technical
- To treat or coat something with resin. Violinists resin the bow to grip the strings.
Did you know?
- Amber is just ancient tree resin turned to stone, and because it trapped and sealed off whatever touched it, it has preserved insects, feathers, and even a feathered dinosaur tail for tens of millions of years.
Word origin
From Latin 'resina', via Old French 'resine'; the Latin likely traces back to Greek 'rhetine' ('resin from the pine').
Remember it
RESIN sounds like 'reason' said fast - but a pine has its own RES-in: the sticky sap inside.
A little poem
The pine weeps slow gold-
one gnat caught mid-flight, and held
a million years still.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the pine tree make a great detective? It always had a sticky resin for catching things.
What it teaches
What a tree sheds to seal its own wound can outlast the forest it grew in.
Quick facts
What does RESIN mean?
A sticky substance from plants or made synthetically, used in varnishes, plastics, and adhesives.
Is RESIN a valid word?
Yes — RESIN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RESIN?
RESIN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does RESIN come from?
From Latin 'resina', via Old French 'resine'; the Latin likely traces back to Greek 'rhetine' ('resin from the pine').
What can RESIN teach us?
What a tree sheds to seal its own wound can outlast the forest it grew in.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.