turpentine tree

British  

noun

1. a tropical African leguminous tree, Copaifera mopane , yielding a hard dark wood and a useful resin

2. either of two Australian evergreen myrtaceous trees, Syncarpia laurifolia or S. glomulifera , that have durable wood and are sometimes planted as shade trees

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Example Sentences

I also found a turpentine tree, nicknamed the tourist tree because the bark is always red and peeling like a sunburned visitor.

From New York Times

Turpentine Tree, burseræ gummifera, belongs to the order diœcia, class polygamia; the calyx is triphyllous, the corolla three-leaved, and the seed-vessel tri-valved.

From Project Gutenberg

Commercially important also is the turpentine tree of southern Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

Near Cairo, at a fountain wherein the Virgin Mary washed her infant’s clothes, a lamp was, three centuries ago, kept burning to her honour in the hollow of an old fig tree, which had served them as a place of shelter, according to the “Itinerario de Antonio Tenreio;” and Maundrell, who travelled in 1697, saw between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the famous turpentine tree, in the shade of which the blessed Virgin is said to have reposed when she was carrying Christ in her arms.

From Project Gutenberg

North of Port Jackson it bears the name of `Turpentine Tree' and `Forest Mahogany.'

From Project Gutenberg