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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   (chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony (rosin), regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. countable, obsolete, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

diterebenediterebene

Etymology

From colophony + -ene.

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