Meaning

noun obtained from conifers (especially pines)

noun volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally

originFrom Middle English terebentyne, terbentyne, turbentine, from Old French terbentine, turbentine, Latin terebinthīna, from terebintha, from Ancient Greek τερεβινθίνη (terebinthínē), from τερεβινθινος (terebinthinos), from τερέβινθος (terébinthos). Related to terpene and terpin; etymologically equivalent to terebinth + -ine.

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