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"Turpentine" Definition

noun

A brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.
A thin volatile essential oil, C10H16, obtained by steam distillation or other means from the wood or exudate of certain pine trees and used as a paint thinner, solvent, and medicinally as a liniment. Also called oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine.
The sticky mixture of resin and volatile oil from which turpentine is distilled.
A yellow to brown semifluid oleoresin obtained as an exudate from the terebinth.
An oleoresin obtained from various conifers (as some pines and firs).

verb-transitive

To apply turpentine to or mix turpentine with.
To extract turpentine from (a tree).

verb

To apply turpentine to.
To extract turpentine from.
To tap (pine trees) in order to obtain turpentine.

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