turpentine
Meaning of turpentine
noun
A volatile essential oil obtained from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; it is a complex mixture of monoterpenes; it is used as a solvent and paint thinner.
verb
To drain resin from (a tree) for use in making turpentine.
Information about turpentine
- The plural form of turpentine is: turpentines.
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Hyphenation of turpentine
tur-pen-tine
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- turpentine is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
turpentine synonyms
Meaning oil of turpentine:
Words that rhyme with turpentine
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