Word Meanings - CARVENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

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• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• EXTRACTIVE
  1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting
• EXTRACTIFORM
  Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• EXTRACTION
  1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth;
• EXTRACTOR
  One who, or that which, extracts; as: A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
• CARAWAY
  A biennial plant of the Parsley family . The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. 2. A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways,
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• HYDRO-EXTRACTOR
  An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.