Usually means: Volatile solvent from pine resin.
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  1. turpentine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turpentine: Merriam-Webster
  3. turpentine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turpentine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. turpentine: Collins English Dictionary
  6. turpentine: Vocabulary.com
  7. Turpentine, turpentine: Wordnik
  8. turpentine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. turpentine: Wiktionary
  10. turpentine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. turpentine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. turpentine: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. turpentine: Dictionary.com
  14. turpentine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. turpentine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Turpentine (Hole song), Turpentine (disambiguation), Turpentine (song), Turpentine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Turpentine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. turpentine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. turpentine: Rhymezone
  20. Turpentine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. turpentine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. turpentine: FreeDictionary.org
  23. turpentine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. turpentine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. turpentine: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  1. turpentine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. turpentine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. turpentine: Medical dictionary

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  1. turpentine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
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(Note: See turpentined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.
noun:  A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.
noun:  (Australia) A turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).
verb:  (transitive) To drain resin from (a tree) for use in making turpentine.

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