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menthol
Alternative clues for the word menthol
Word definitions for menthol in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
menthol \men"thol\, n. [Mentha + -ol.] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, aromatic substance ( C10H20O ) resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint ( Mentha ); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor . It has the peculiar effect on skin and ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ No aromatic oils, vapour rubs, smelly nasal decongestants like menthol or eucalyptus etc.
Usage examples of menthol.
But his real concern was with the man who had smoked the menthol cigarette.
It was grim proof that Archie Hiller liked to smoke menthol cigarettes, and was worried enough by recent events to try to hide that fact!
Hiller asked me to find out if you got those menthol cigarettes all right.
He produced a package of a popular brand, after refusing the menthol cigarette which Cranston offered him.
Regina moved to a couch with her usual slight hobble, sat down, slipped her shoes off, and began to rub her forehead with a menthol stick.
He gave Jeb a quick hug, smelled the familiar scent of cinnamon chewing gum, spice aftershave and menthol muscle rub.
There were bobby pins dusted with powder, an empty pack of menthol cigarettes, plastic pens, paper clips in a chain, and a white cap from a shampoo bottle.
Boiled tobacco leaves, menthol cough drops, honey, mint leaves and whiskey.
Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
In the form in which Menthol is imported, it bears some resemblance to Epsom Salts, with which it is sometimes adulterated.
As Japanese Peppermint oil, after being freed from Menthol crystals, is inferior both in taste and odour to English and American oil, experiments have been made in Japan with the cultivation of English and American Peppermint, but so far without success.
The Corn Mint (Mentha arvensis) is the type species of the Japanese Menthol plant, but is not endowed with useful medicinal properties, great care indeed, as has been mentioned, having to be taken to eradicate it from Peppermint plantations, for if mingled with that valuable herb in distilling its strong odour affects the quality of the oil.
Marc lights a menthol cigarette, and says, Tm telling you, Sam, it was the Kennedys!
TRIXIE LEANS AGAINST THE COUNTER, smoking a menthol cigarette and glumly watching Marino pack a large ice chest with beer, luncheon meats, bottles of mustard and mayonnaise, and whatever his huge hands grab out of the refrigerator.