tolu+balsam

  • 111Abies balsamea — Balsam Bal sam (b[add]l sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. ba lsamon. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. [1913 Webster] Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances,… …

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  • 112Impatiens balsamina — Balsam Bal sam (b[add]l sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. ba lsamon. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. [1913 Webster] Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances,… …

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  • 113Momordica balsamina — Balsam Bal sam (b[add]l sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. ba lsamon. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. [1913 Webster] Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances,… …

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  • 114Myroxylon Pereirae — Balsam Bal sam (b[add]l sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. ba lsamon. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. [1913 Webster] Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances,… …

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  • 115Myroxylon toluiferum — Balsam Bal sam (b[add]l sam), n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. ba lsamon. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. [1913 Webster] Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances,… …

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  • 116toluene — (n.) colorless liquid hydrocarbon, 1871, from Ger. toluin (Berzelius, 1842), from Tolu, place in Colombia (now Santiago de Tolu) from which balsam of Tolu was obtained from the bark of certain trees. The chemical so called because it was first… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 117Stacte — (Greek: στακτή, staktḗ) or nataph (Hebrew: נָטָף‎‎, nataf) are names used for one component of the Solomon s Temple incense, the Ketoret, discussed in Exodus 30:34. Variously translated to the Greek term (AMP: Exodus 30:34) or to an unspecified… …

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  • 118toluare — toluáre s. f. Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  TOLUÁRE s.f. (farm.) Operaţie de acoperire a pilulelor cu balsam de tolu. [pron. lu a . / < tolu, după fr. toluisation]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN …

    Dicționar Român

  • 119toluene — [täl′yo͞o ēn΄] n. [ TOLU + (BENZ)ENE] a colorless, liquid, flammable, poisonous hydrocarbon, C6H5CH3, obtained originally from balsam of Tolu but now generally from coal tar or petroleum, and used in making dyes, explosives, etc. and as a solvent …

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  • 120Myroxylon — My*rox y*lon, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a sweet juice distilling from a plant + ? wood.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of… …

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