clove oil
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- noun
- /kloʊv ɔɪl/
:
aceite de clavo
- It's like primary ingredients like citric acid and clove oil smells actually pretty good.
It's called the holy anointing oil, and it's a blend of clove oil.
- It's called the holy anointing oil, and it's a blend of clove oil.
Examples
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You put a drop of this clove oil under your eyes, and you let 'em sting and well up.
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Clove oil helps with toothache.
Blog text (15) -
Clove oil.
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Collecting with anesthetics, such as quinaldine and clove oil, is effective when small quantities are squirted from a plastic squeeze bottle at individual fish that can be approached closely.
Academic text (2008) -
To soothe her toothache, she applied clove oil directly to the affected area for relief.
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The herbalist recommended adding a few drops of clove oil to the tea for its pleasant flavor and health benefits.
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Many people use clove oil for its medicinal properties, such as reducing inflammation and alleviating pain.
Synonyms
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A strong-smelling oil made from cloves that eases tooth pain and adds flavor
How Antiseptic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an essential oil extracted from cloves' is directly derivable from combining 'clove' (the spice) with 'oil' (a liquid extracted or used from plants) following the common noun+noun compounding pattern meaning 'oil made from X'. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Clove oil comes from the small dried flower bud called a clove and the liquid oil that is pressed or heated out of it. People long used the strong-smelling oil to ease 'toothache', to add 'flavor', and to give a nice 'fragrance', so Clove oil now means a spicy-smelling oil used for those purposes.