Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A colorless liquid, C9H17COH, derived from orange blossoms and used in perfumery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colorless liquid terpene alcohol, C10H18O, contained in French oil of orange-flowers and in other essential oils. It boils at 225–227° C.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A monoterpene alcohol (Z)-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-ol found in many essential oils
Etymologies
- ner(oli oil) + -ol1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lemon verbena has a lemony characteristics (citral makes about 30-35% of the composition of its essential oil) but also floral and rosy due to the presence of nerol (neroli-like) and geraniol (rosy).”
“Description: nerolism ~ FLAC curses from the pond nerol drehpehs”
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We exist in a chemical soup of our own making, from acylglycerol to zotarolimus.
flufenacet, chavicol, eugenol, cymene, sabinene, felandrene, suaveolol, fenchone, pulegone, carvone, limonene, linalol and 79 more...
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