turpentine treeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

turpentine tree (plural turpentine trees)

1. A terebinth or Cyprus turpentine (Pistacia terebinthus), source of Cyprian turpentine. [from 16th c.]
2. Any of various other trees producing turpentine, now chiefly species of pine and fir. [from 18th c.]
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. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 269:

     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.

4. (Australia) A malara or native gardenia (Gardenia pyriformis), native to northern Australia.
5. (Virgin Islands) A West Indian birch (Bursera simaruba), native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
6. (Australia) A brown cudgeree (Canarium australianum, family Burseraceae), native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

   Synonym: mango bark, scrub turpentine, carrot wood, parsnip wood, Melville Island white beech

7. A mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane), of southern Africa.

   Synonyms: balsam tree, black ironwood, butterfly tree

派生語

• Australian turpentine tree (Lophostemon confertus, syn. Tristania conferta; Syncarpia laurifolia)
• Persian turpentine tree (Pistacia spp.)

参考

• brush turpentine (Choricarpia leptopetala, Rhodamnia rubescens)
• scrub turpentine (Canarium australianum, Rhodamnia rubescens)
• turpentine bush (Beyeria spp., Eremophila spp., Acacia lysiphloia, and Ericameria laricifolia)
• turpentine grass (Cymbopogon spp.)
• turpentine weed (Gutierrezia sarothrae, Silphium perfoliatum, Silphium terebinthinaceum, Trichostema lanceolatum, Trichostema laxum

参照

• “turpentine tree”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• turpentine tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia