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7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants
originFrom German Terpen, coined by August Kekulé in 1866 in analogy to German Terpentin, from Latin terebinthina. Piecewise doublet of terpin; compare also terebinth and turpentine.
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