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

Tristania neriifolia.—A myrtaceous plant from Australia, called the turpentine tree, owing to its furnishing a fluid resembling that product.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

Commercially important also is the turpentine tree of southern Europe.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

Sir 24:16 As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

The lentisc has probably been thus mistaken for the turpentine tree.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various