Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chief constituent of cajeput-oil, obtained by cohobation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, organic chemistry A colourless or greenish
oil extracted fromcajuput .
Etymologies
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cajuput + -ene
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Examples
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C10H16 group, which in current practice at that time came under a multitude of names ranging from terpene to camphene, citrene, carvene, cinene, cajuputene, eucalyptine, hesperidine, etc.
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It consists mainly of cineol (see TERPENES), from which cajuputene having a hyacinthine odour can be obtained by distillation with phosphorus pentoxide.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
hernesheir commented on the word cajuputene
I would never had known cajuputene was obtained by cohobation. Thank you, CD&C!
January 9, 2012