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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline substance obtained from cloves by treating them with alcohol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A substance extracted from
cloves ,polymeric with commoncamphor .
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