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Definition of Peppermint oil

1. Noun. Oil from the peppermint plant used as flavoring.

Medical Definition of Peppermint oil

1. The volatile oil distilled with steam from the fresh, overground parts of the flowering plant of Mentha piperita, rectified by distillation and neither partially nor wholly dementholised; a flavor. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peppermint Oil

Literary usage of Peppermint oil

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

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"373, for French peppermint oil are too narrow; the oil may have an optical rotation up ... The Hungarian peppermint oil resembles the American oil closely. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"peppermint oil is largely distilled at Canton, a considerable quantity being sent to Bombay, also a large quantity of menthol. The species cultivated in the ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"peppermint oil ia largely distilled afc Canton, a considerable quantity (about 300 catties annually) being sent to Bombay, also about 600 catties of menthol ..."

4. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Owing to the wide variation in the rotatory power of peppermint oil, only a roughly approximate idea of the oil content of peppermint extract can be gained ..."

5. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"Owing to the wide variation in the rotatory power of peppermint oil, only a roughly approximate idea of the oil content of peppermint extract can be gained ..."

6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"There is a slight difference in the odor of white and black peppermint oil, the black being more pungent and less agreeable in fragrance than the white, ..."

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