terebinth
/ter-uh-binth/US // ˈtɛr ə bɪnθ //UK // (ˈtɛrɪbɪnθ) //
风铃草,风信子,蒺藜,风水宝地
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a Mediterranean tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the cashew family, yielding Chian turpentine.
Examples
He then eats some of a cake made of preserved figs, tastes the fruit of the terebinth tree, and drinks a cup of sour milk.
I do not know that you will equally appreciate the terebinth tree.
The oak and the terebinth are sometimes confounded together; but a small kind of the latter produces pistachio nuts.
He hears "the small hushed cry of crisp dry life The terebinth gives beneath the graver's knife."
It is eighteen feet long, plastered all over, and shaded by a splendid terebinth.
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