| a colorless, flammable, volatile essential oil having a penetrating odor and a pungent, bitter taste, obtained from turpentine oleoresin by distillation: used in paints and varnishes, and in medicine as a carminative, vermifuge, expectorant, rubefacient, and, formerly, as a diuretic. |
| oil of turpentine n. See turpentine. |
tur·pen·tine  (tûr'pən-tīn')  n.
[Middle English, resin of the terebinth, from Old French terebentine, from Latin terebinthina (rēsīna), terebinth (resin), from Greek terebinthinē, feminine of terebenthinos, from terebinthos, terebinth tree.] tur'pen·tin'ic (-tĭn'ĭk), tur'pen·tin'ous (-tĭn'əs) adj. |
