Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A melaleuca tree (Melaleuca cajuputi) of Southeast Asia and Australia whose leaves yield an essential oil.
- noun The oil obtained from this tree, used as a flavoring and in cosmetics and medicinal preparations.
- noun Any of several other melaleucas, especially M. leucadendra or M. quinquenervia, which is naturalized in southern Florida.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 . - noun The spice-tree of California: so named on account of the properties of its oil. See
spice-tree .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cajuput .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
cajuput .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Henriette McDougall 1851
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Paperbark is used extensively by local people for cajeput oil, insect repellant, soap, caulking for boats, firewood, and construction.
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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.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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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.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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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.
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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.
Chapter 6 1983
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Broad-leaved tea tree, tea tree, paperbark tea tree, belbowrie (Australia); melaleuca, cajeput, paperbark, punktree (USA); niaouli (New Caledonia)
Chapter 6 1983
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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.
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Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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_Eucalyptus piperita_, a powerful solvent of caoutchouc, evidently very similar, if not altogether identical, with the oil of cajeput.
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