camphor : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing
  mothball.
  

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• noun annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers
  Haplopappus phyllocephalus.
  

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• noun densely hairy plant with rayless flowers; San Francisco Bay area
  Tanacetum camphoratum.
  

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• noun a cerate made of camphor and wax and spermaceti and castor oil
  

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• noun oil distilled from camphor resin
  

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• (Chem.), name variously given to certain oil-like products, obtained especially from the camphor tree.

Webster 1913

• noun large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  Cinnamomum camphora.
  

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• a large evergreen tree (Cinnamomum Camphora) with lax, smooth branches and shining triple-nerved lanceolate leaves, probably native in China, but now cultivated in most warm countries. Camphor is collected by a process of steaming the chips of the wood and subliming the product.

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• . (Chem.) See Eugenin.

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• ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or Borneo camphor.

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• . (Chem.) See Menthol.

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• (Chem.), a white crystalline waxy substance, tasteless and odorless, obtained from beroli oil; called also auradin.

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• (Chem.), a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.

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• (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.

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• noun a colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic
  thymol; thymic acid.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Nicotianine.

Webster 1913

• noun aromatic plant of western United States
  camphorweed; Trichostema lanceolatum; vinegarweed.
  

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