Definition of Cajeput

1. n. See Cajuput.

Definition of Cajeput

1. an Australian tree [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cajeput

cairns
cairny
caissaca
caisson
caisson disease
caisson sickness
caissons
caitiff
caitiffs
caitive
caitives
caixin
cajan pea
cajaput
cajaputs
cajeput (current term)
cajeputol
cajeputs
cajole
cajoled
cajolement
cajolements
cajoler
cajoleries
cajolers
cajolery
cajoles
cajoling
cajolingly
cajon

Literary usage of Cajeput

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"cajeput oil is much adulterated. Formerly fictitious cajeput oil was even ... The behavior of cajeput oil towards iodine may serve as a guide for the ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1864)
"When the vapour of that portion of oil of cajeput (xiv. 510) which boils at 175° is passed over red-hot soda-lime, a yellow oil is obtained, ..."

3. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"cajeput Liniment—For the Loins in Dropsy ... Oils of cajeput, juniper, sassafras and^spearmint, of each, 1 oz.; strongest alcohol, 4 ozs. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Slowly sol. in oil of cloves, cinnamon, cajeput, ind rue. Other essential oils decompose it. Various authorities.) Sol. in potassium antimony tartrate+Aq. ..."

5. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1833)
"... that appears to be the only cause of the bitterness of the almonds; and one of the elements of the essential oil.t ARTICLE XXI.—On cajeput Oil. ..."

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