Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An almost tasteless and odorless liquid (C10H16) found in oil of caraway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry An
oily substance, C10H16, extracted fromcaraway .
Etymologies
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French carvi caraway, and -ene.
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Examples
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The pungent essential oil which it yields consists of a hydrocarbon, "carvene," together with an oxygenated oil; It is a
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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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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Chemically the volatile oil obtained from Caraway seeds consists of "carvol," and a hydro-carbon, "carvene," which is a sort of "camphor."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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