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Definition of Castoreum
1. 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.
Definition of Castoreum
1. Noun. The bitter exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Castoreum
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castoreum
Literary usage of Castoreum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Castoreum when fresh, is soft and unctuous, but becomes hard and firm when dry ;
it has a black or brownish-black colour, and is somewhat shining. ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1836)
"The most important substances in castoreum for me to notice, are the resin, ...
Boil castoreum in alco- bol, mod filter while hot. As the liquid 1. ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"Within these pouches,63 he says, there is a liquid found, which is preserved by
being put in salt; the genuine castoreum being easily known from the false, ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1852)
"Is the year 1844, Wühler* remarked that carbolic acid strongly resembled in odour
fresh castoreum, and suggested that the volatile oil of castoreum was ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"Obtained by distilling castoreum repeatedly with water, and constantly pouring
back the distillate (Bohn), or by exhausting with cold ether, evaporating the ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"The castoreum which it supplies to medicine, a drug dignified by a celebrity of
more than two thousand years, and highly valued even at the present day by ..."
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