English Dictionary

turpentine tree

名詞

オーストラリア英語

The terebinth or Cyprus turpentine, Pistacia terebinthus, the source of Cyprian turpentine. / Any of various other trees producing turpentine, now chiefly species of pine and fir.

日本語の意味

Pistacia terebinthus（テルピナス）の木、つまりキプロス・テルペンの原料となるテルピナスの実種。 / テルペン（松脂など）の生産に関わる他の樹木、主に現代ではマツやモミなどの種を指す。

The turpentine tree's resin was prized in ancient Cyprus for its fragrant, medicinal properties.

そのテレピンの木（Pistacia terebinthus）の樹脂は、古代キプロスで香り高く薬効のあるものとして重宝されました。

意味（1）

The terebinth or Cyprus turpentine, Pistacia terebinthus, the source of Cyprian turpentine.

意味（2）

Any of various other trees producing turpentine, now chiefly species of pine and fir.

意味（3）

(Australia) Any of various trees of the genus Syncarpia known for their aromatic or flammable resin or leaves, especially Syncarpia glomulifera of eastern New South Wales and Queensland.

The Pajero sped past small clearings in the scrub floored by white earth […] , overarched by the skinny limbs of twisted turpentine trees that might have been the desiccated remains of the dwelling houses of a species long vanished from this earth.

意味（4）

(Australia) Gardenia pyriformis (malara, native gardenia), native to northern Australia.

意味（5）

(Virgin Islands) Bursera simaruba (West Indian birch), native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.

意味（6）

(Australia) Canarium australianum (brown cudgeree) (in family Burseraceae), native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

意味（7）

Colophospermum mopane, of southern Africa.

turpentine trees （ plural ）