Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To impregnate with turpentine.
- Terebinthine; impregnated with the qualities of turpentine.
- noun In medicine, a preparation of the turpentine of firs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.
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- adjective Characteristic of
turpentine
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Examples
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The wild Saint John's Wort (_Hypericum peiforatum_) is a frequent plant in our woods and hedgebanks, having leaves studded with minute translucent vesicles, which seem to perforate their structure, and which contain a terebinthinate oil of fragrant medicinal virtues.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The terebinthinate odor of the tree, some electrical influence of its long, spearlike leaves, a certain modification of "ozone" (an allotropic condition of oxygen, see Faraday's examinations), are severally esteemed to modify the atmosphere and diminish the effects of malaria.
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Fixed oils, alcohol, and purified oil of turpentine are sometimes found, the last causing a terebinthinate odour if evaporated from heated paper.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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