VOLATILE OIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does volatile oil mean? 

• VOLATILE OIL (noun)
  The noun VOLATILE OIL has 1 sense:

1. an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings

  Familiarity information: VOLATILE OIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLATILE OIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

essential oil; volatile oil

Hypernyms ("volatile oil" is a kind of...):

oil (a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volatile oil"):

ilang-ilang (oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree; used in perfumery)

bitter almond oil (pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal)

atar; athar; attar; ottar (essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers)

clove oil; oil of cloves (essential oil obtained from cloves and used to flavor medicines)

costus oil (a yellow volatile essential oil obtained from costusroot; used in perfumes)

eucalyptus oil (an essential oil obtained from the leaves of eucalypts)

oil of turpentine; spirit of turpentine; turpentine; turps (volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally)

absinthe oil; wormwood oil (a dark bitter oil obtained from wormwood leaves; flavors absinthe liqueurs)

linalool (a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils)

 Context examples 

This agent may have anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, possibly due to the presence of antioxidants, phenols, tannins, triterpenoids and volatile oils.

(Devil's Foot/Jambul, NCI Thesaurus)

Angelica sinensis contains volatile oils, including safrole, isosafrole, and n-butylphthalide; coumarin derivatives, including psoralens, bergapten, osthol, imperatorin, and oxypeucedanin; and ferulic acid.

(Angelica Sinensis Root Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

The herb contains the alkaloids stachydrine and leonurinine, glycosides, diterpinoids, flavonoids, tannins, volatile oils, and vitamin A.

(Motherwort, NCI Thesaurus)

Chamomile has a warm aromatic odour and a very bitter taste and contains volatile oils which are a mixture of butyl and amyl angelates and valerates.

(Chamomile, NCI Thesaurus)