gum terpentine

1. 1.

   obtained from conifers (especially pines)

   Synonymsturpentine

   Broaderoleoresin

   NarrowerChian turpentine

Questions about gum terpentine

What does gum terpentine mean?

gum terpentine means "obtained from conifers (especially pines)".

What is another word for gum terpentine?

Close synonyms include turpentine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gum terpentine a common word?

gum terpentine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.