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Turpentine is distilled from it
Answer for the clue "Turpentine is distilled from it ", 7 letters:
pinesap
Alternative clues for the word pinesap
- Pitch cousin
- Evergreen oozing
- Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America
- Fir exudation
- Tree residue that's hard to remove from hair
- Resinous ooze
- In some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys
- Pitch relative
Word definitions for pinesap in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A myco-heterotroph, formerly thought to be a saprophyte, ''Monotropa hypopitys'', having racemes of drooping flowers.
Usage examples of pinesap.
The woods all around were silent and thick, fragrant with pinesap and the fecund scent of decaying leaves.
He reeked of fire: smoke and pinesap and scorched cloth, and the bitter tang of turpentine.
The day was warm, the sun cheerful, and the smells of pinesap and freshly mowed grass brought him pleasant memories of simpler times.