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Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.

To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.

The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.

Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]

in essences, perfumery, etc., and include many varieties of compounds; as lemon oil is a terpene, oil of bitter almonds an aldehyde, oil of wintergreen an ethereal salt, etc.; -- called also volatile oils in distinction from the fixed or nonvolatile.

A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.

A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also geranium.]

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. Shak.…

romatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers. -- Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea. -- Orange pippin, an orange-colored apple with acid flavor. -- Quito orang…

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.

A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.