terebinth
a Mediterranean tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the cashew family, yielding Chian turpentine.
Origin of terebinth
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How to use terebinth in a sentence
He then eats some of a cake made of preserved figs, tastes the fruit of the terebinth tree, and drinks a cup of sour milk.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey StewartI do not know that you will equally appreciate the terebinth tree.
The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David WyssThe oak and the terebinth are sometimes confounded together; but a small kind of the latter produces pistachio nuts.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake JamesHe hears "the small hushed cry of crisp dry life The terebinth gives beneath the graver's knife."
Essays | Arthur Christopher BensonIt is eighteen feet long, plastered all over, and shaded by a splendid terebinth.
Tent Work in Palestine | Claude Reignier Conder
British Dictionary definitions for terebinth
/ (ˈtɛrɪbɪnθ) /
a small anacardiaceous tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the Mediterranean region, having winged leafstalks and clusters of small flowers, and yielding a turpentine
Origin of terebinth
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