TEREBINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terebinth mean? 

• TEREBINTH (noun)
  The noun TEREBINTH has 1 sense:

1. a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine

  Familiarity information: TEREBINTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEREBINTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Pistacia terebinthus; terebinth

Hypernyms ("terebinth" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("terebinth" is a member of...):

genus Pistacia; Pistacia (a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit)