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Webster 1913 Edition

(s?′m?n)

Noun.

(Chem.)

A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon,

CH3.C6H4.C3H7

, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; – called also

paracymene

, and formerly

camphogen

cymene ‎(plural cymenes)

(chemistry) any of several isomeric naturally occurring terpenoid hydrocarbons; a constituent of a number of essential oils, most commonly the oil of cumin and thyme.

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