noun

1. the brownish-yellow, sticky, semifluid oleoresin exuding from the terebinth
2. any of the various sticky, viscid oleoresins obtained from pines and other coniferous trees; gum turpentine
3. a colorless, volatile essential oil, CH, distilled from such oleoresins and used in paints, varnishes, etc., and in medicine; spirits of turpentine; oil of turpentine

Etymology: ME turpentyne < OFr terbentine < L terebinthinus, of the turpentine tree < terebinthus: see terebinth

transitive verb turpentined -·tined′, turpentining -·tin′·ing

1. to apply turpentine to
2. ☆ to extract turpentine from (trees)