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Terebinth

Definition: Terebinth

Terebinth

Noun

1. A Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "terebinth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Terebinth

DomainDefinitions

Bible

Terebinth (R.V. marg. of Deut. 11:30, etc.), the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists; a tree very common in the south and east of Palestine. (See OAK.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Terebinth

Synonym: Pistacia terebinthus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Terebinth

English words defined with "terebinth": Chian turpentineTurpentine tree. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Terebinth

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Terebinth

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

terebinth

3

terebinth tree

2
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Modern Translations: Terebinth

Language Translations for "terebinth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏نوع من الشجر, ‏بطم. (various references)

   

Danish

  

terpentintrae (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

terpentijnboom (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree), terebinthboom (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree), terebinth (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tärpättipistaasi (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

French

  

térébinthe (terebinth pistache). (various references)

   

German

  

Terpentinpistazie (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τρεμεντίνα (turpentine), τερεβίνθοσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

terebinto (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree), scornabecco (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erebinthtay

   

Portuguese

  

terebinto. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

терпентинное дерево. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

terpentin (turpentine). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

terebintos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

terebint (terebinth pistache, turpentine tree). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terementi, sakız ağacı (gum tree, mastic). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

терпентинове дерево. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Terebinth

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Pistacia terebinthus. (various references)

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Derivations: Terebinth

Derivations

Words beginning with "terebinth": terebinths. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Terebinth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-n-r-t-t"

-1 letter: thirteen.

-2 letters: bittern, neither, nettier, tentier, therein.

-3 letters: better, bitten, bitter, either, entire, henbit, herein, hinter, hitter, inhere, nether, netter, retine, retint, tenter, tentie, tether, theine, tinter, tither, triene.

-4 letters: beret, berth, birth, biter, brent, brine, britt, enter, ether, inert, inter, ither, niter, nitre, rente, retie, teeth, tenet, tenth, terne, thebe, thein, their, there, thine, three, titer, tithe, titre, treen, tribe, trine, trite.

-5 letters: been, beer, beet, bene, bent, beth, bier, bine, bint, bite, bitt, bree, bren, brie, brin, brit, erne, hebe, heir, hent, herb, here, hern, hint, hire, nett, nite, rein, rent, rete, rite, teen, tent, tern, teth, thee, then, thin, thir, tier, tine, tint, tire, tree, tret.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-n-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: terebinths.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Terebinth


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 72 65 62 69 6E 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    .-.    .    -...    ..    -.    -    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100010 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#98 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0072 0065 0062 0069 006E 0074 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547184716875808674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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