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Terebinth Tree

in botany, the nate, generally three pairs with a terminal one; flowers small; fruit small, dark, purple, rounded, and furrowed. The turpentine flows from incisions in the stem on the tree by the puncture of insects is used in dyeing, and for tanning one kind of morocco leather. shell; a genus of Buccinidæ. Shell long, pointed, many whorled; aperture small; canal short; operculum pointed, nucleus apical. Animal blind, or with eyes near the summit of minute tentacles. All the ; aperture small; ed, nucleus the summit of minute tentacles. All the shells are smooth, and ornamented with and orange. Recent species 110, mostly Fossil 24, from the Eocene and orange. Recent species 110, mostly tropical. of Great Britain, France, and Chile.

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