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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An animal principle obtained by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquid, from which the castorin is deposited.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

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  • noun organic chemistry A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

Etymologies

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castor +‎ -in

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