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- English Word Terbic Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.
- English Word Terbium Definition A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.
- English Word Terce Definition See Tierce.
- English Word Tercel Definition See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.
- English Word Tercelet Definition A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.
- English Word Tercellene Definition A small male hawk.
- English Word Tercentenary Definition Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.
- English Word Tercentenary Definition The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
- English Word Tercet Definition A triplet.
- English Word Tercet Definition A triplet; a group of three lines.
- English Word Tercine Definition A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.
- English Word Terebate Definition A salt of terebic acid.
- English Word Terebene Definition A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.
- English Word Terebenthene Definition Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.
- English Word Terebic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Terebilenic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.
- English Word Terebinth Definition The turpentine tree.
- English Word Terebinthic Definition Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.
- English Word Terebinthinate Definition Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.
- English Word Terebinthine Definition Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.
- English Word Terebra Definition A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
- English Word Terebra Definition The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
- English Word Terebrae Definition of Terebra
- English Word Terebrant Definition Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.
- English Word Terebrantia Definition A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
- English Word Terebras Definition of Terebra
- English Word Terebrate Definition To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
- English Word Terebrating Definition Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
- English Word Terebrating Definition Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.
- English Word Terebration Definition The act of terebrating, or boring.