Crossword-Solution: CASTOREUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Castoreum | n. | A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CASTOREUM | anagram | OUTSCREAM, SCREAMOUT |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CASTOREUM”
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| ANIMAL perfume | 5 answers |
| BOUQUET perfume base | 5 answers |
| NOSEGAY perfume base | 5 answers |
| PERFUME of animal | 5 answers |
| NATURAL perfume | 7 answers |
| Perfume base | 14 answers |
| PERFUMERY, substance used in | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CASTOREUM (5)
Morgan, L.H., on the beaver; on the reasoning powers of the beaver; on the forcible capture of wives; on the castoreum of the beaver; marriage unknown in primeval times; on polyandry.
Zambelli first gave him oppilative remedies, and, seeing his mistake, he tried to mend it by administering castoreum, which sent his patient into convulsions and killed him.
The peculiar odoriferous substance, secreted in two glandular sacs near the root of the tail, is "castoreum," more generally known as "bark stone" among the trappers.
Among rodents the beaver is the image of Christian prudence, because, says the legend, when he is pursued by hunters he tears with his teeth the pouch containing castoreum and flings it at the foe.
Beginning then with metallic mercury (_argentum vivum_), he considers the poisonous effects of various salts of lead and copper, the vegetable poisons hellebore, anacardium (_anacardis?_), castoreum, opium and cassilago (_semina hyoscyami_), and then proceeds to the bites or rabid men and animals, hydrophobia, and the bites of scorpions, serpents and the _animalia annulosa_, that is, worms, wasps, bees, ants and spiders.