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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. 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.