Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To treat or impregnate with camphor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To treat or impregnate with camphor: as, “a camphorated draught,”
- Pertaining to camphor or impregnated with it: as, “camphorate liquors,”
- noun [= NL. camphoratum, neut.] In chem., a compound of camphoric acid with different bases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To impregnate or treat with camphor.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of camphoric acid.
- Combined or impregnated with camphor.
- an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any
salt ofcamphoric acid . - verb transitive To treat or impregnate with
camphor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb treat with camphor
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Compare French camphorate.
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