a. Bot. Also -taceous. [f. mod.L. Terebinthāceæ, f. L. terebinthus: see prec. and -ACEOUS.] Belonging to the N.O. Terebinthacæ, in some classifications a synonym of Anacardiaceæ, or including both that and Burseraceæ.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 126. From Anacardiaceæ and other terebintaceous orders they [Connaraceæ] are at once known by the total want of resinous juice.
1852. Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., I. vi. 213, note. Among terebinthaceous plants, the Rhus glabrum.
