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Meanings of ethereal oil in English

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A concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants.

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        Examples for "essential oil"
        Examples for "essential oil"
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        Then add a few drops of an essential oil to the water.
        The South African
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        Dilution Dilution ratios greatly depend on how strong an essential oil is.
        The South African
        3
        Fourteen pounds of the cake yield about one ounce of essential oil.
        The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plan...
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        Use in animal husbandry of the essential oil extracted from O. vulgare ssp.
        Pubmed
        5
        The essential oil was effective against all the fungi used in the experiment.
        Pubmed
        1
        The industry has been stressed by highly volatile oil and corn prices.
        Reuters
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        Produces a volatile oil everywhere except the inside of the fruit.
        Wicked plants
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        Turpentine is a volatile oil from the sap of long-leaf pine.
        Handwork in Wood
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        The cultivated plant is less rich in the volatile oil than the wild herb.
        Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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        Prepared (how).-Asa poultice, raw; when boiled volatile oil is cast off.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        Usage of ethereal oil in English
        1
        The well-known condiments are salt, vinegar, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and various substances containing ethereal oils and aromatics.
        A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
        2
        Ethereal oils occur in many families, in the bark, root, wood, leaf, flower, and fruit; particularly in myrtaceæ, laurineæ, cyperaceæ, crucifereæ, aurantiaceæ, labiatæ, and umbelliferæ.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887