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Both tar and turpentine are resins extracted from pine trees. there is no clear connection (sited at this source but is there more? how did the terebinth tree get its name? (is it terebinth tree in greek or is tree redundant? is tere a 'word stem' for 'resin tree'?

The LSJ on Perseus gives the oldest form of the word as terminthos: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q25513E46


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