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 brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.
[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.
(tûr'pən-tīn') 