WordNet
n. an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings [syn: essential oil]
Usage examples of "volatile oil".
Other constituents are traces of a volatile oil, albumen, resin, fat, wax, chlorophyll, tannic acid, grape sugar, gum, extractive, starch, pectin and various alkaline and earthy salts.
If Spearmint is being grown as a medicinal herb, for the sake of the volatile oil to be extracted from it, the shoots should be gathered in August, when just coming into flower, and taken to the distillery as soon as possible after picking, the British Pharmacopceia directing that oil of Spearmint be distilled from the fresh, flowering plant.
It loses its aroma on ripening, owing to loss of volatile oil, and the berries are therefore collected as soon as they have attained their full size, in July and August, but while unripe and green.
The Saxon, Galician, Roumanian and Russian varieties all yield 4 to 5 per cent of volatile oil, and these varieties are alone suitable for pharmaceutical use.
The whole plant possesses a balsamic odour and an aromatic, bitter taste, due to its particular volatile oil, contained in the glands on the under surface of the leaves.
They contain a volatile oil (obtained by distillation) on which the action of the fruit depends.
The spell completed, Barjin retrieved several flasks of volatile oil and soaked Mullivy's clothes.
He shuddered to think of what might have happened if his landing had shattered, and not just cracked, the container of volatile Oil of Impact.
The spell completed, Barjin retrieved several flasks of volatile oil and soaked Mullivy’.