Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small myrtaceous tree or shrub of the Moluccas and neighboring islands, Melaleuca Cajuputi or minor, a variety of M. Leucadendron or a distinct species, with lanceolate aromatic leaves and odorless flowers in spikes. Also written cajuput.
- n. The spice-tree of California: so named on account of the properties of its oil. See spice-tree.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of cajuput.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See cajuput.
Examples
“We made a saturated solution of camphor in brandy, and gave a teaspoonful of it on moist sugar for a dose, adding three drops of Kayu Puteh oil, extracted from a Borneon wood and called cajeput oil in England, a very strong aromatic medicine.”
“Paperbark is used extensively by local people for cajeput oil, insect repellant, soap, caulking for boats, firewood, and construction.”
“Skin Ointment by Nutribiotic contains powerfully antibacterial grapefruit seed extract and tea tree oil, along with healing l-lysine, echinacea, bee propolis, honey, cajeput oil, calendula, and goldenseal in a natural base.”
“About a mile behind and to the east of the village the hills commence, but they are very barren, being covered with scanty coarse grass and scattered trees of the Melaleuca cajuputi, from the leaves of which the celebrated cajeput oil is made.”
“Leaves, twigs, and seed capsules are crushed and distilled to produce niaouli oil, which together with cajeput oil from Melaleuca cajeputi has pharmaceutical and other specialty uses.”
“Broad-leaved tea tree, tea tree, paperbark tea tree, belbowrie (Australia); melaleuca, cajeput, paperbark, punktree (USA); niaouli (New Caledonia)”
“Constant care, stuffed bodies, and soaking in benzoline, are the deterrent agents; camphor is a pleasant fiction, so is wool soaked in creosote, phenic acid, cajeput oil, crystals of napthelin, etc. -- in fact, it may be laid down as an indisputable doctrine that no atmospheric poison is of the slightest avail against mites.”
“Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“_Eucalyptus piperita_, a powerful solvent of caoutchouc, evidently very similar, if not altogether identical, with the oil of cajeput.”
“From the odorous leaves of the _Arbor alba_ is extracted a portion of the aromatic cajeput oil.”
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