turpentine : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a turpentine exuded by the terebinth
  

WordNet

• a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.

Webster 1913

• noun volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
  oil of turpentine; turpentine; turps.
  

WordNet

• (Chem.), a colorless oily hydrocarbon, C10H16, of a pleasant aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of crude turpentine. It is used in making varnishes, in medicine, etc. It is the type of the terpenes and is related to cymene. Called also terebenthene, terpene, etc.

Webster 1913

• noun volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
  oil of turpentine; turpentine; turps.
  

WordNet

• (Chem.), rectified oil of turpentine, a transparent, colorless, volatile, and very inflammable liquid, distilled from the turpentine of the various species of pine; camphine. See Camphine.

Webster 1913

• noun aromatic plant of western United States
  camphorweed; Trichostema lanceolatum; vinegarweed.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small tortricid moths whose larvæ eat the tender shoots of pine and fir trees, causing an exudation of pitch or resin.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), the terebinth tree, the original source of turpentine. See Turpentine, above.

Webster 1913

• noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
  Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed.
  

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