Cajeput

Word CAJEPUT
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Hyphenation caj e put
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Definitions and meanings of "Cajeput"

What do we mean by cajeput?

A melaleuca tree (Melaleuca cajuputi) of Southeast Asia and Australia whose leaves yield an essential oil. noun

The oil obtained from this tree, used as a flavoring and in cosmetics and medicinal preparations. noun

Any of several other melaleucas, especially M. leucadendra or M. quinquenervia, which is naturalized in southern Florida. noun

A small myrtaceous tree or shrub of the Moluccas and neighboring islands, Melaleuca Cajuputi or minor, a variety of M. Leucadendron or a distinct species, with lanceolate aromatic leaves and odorless flowers in spikes. Also written cajuput. noun

The spice-tree of California: so named on account of the properties of its oil. See spice-tree. noun

See cajuput. noun

Alternative form of cajuput. noun

Cajuput oil

Cajuput tree

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The word "cajeput" in example sentences

We made a saturated solution of camphor in brandy, and gave a teaspoonful of it on moist sugar for a dose, adding three drops of Kayu Puteh oil, extracted from a Borneon wood and called cajeput oil in England, a very strong aromatic medicine. ❋ Henriette McDougall (1851)

Paperbark is used extensively by local people for cajeput oil, insect repellant, soap, caulking for boats, firewood, and construction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Skin Ointment by Nutribiotic contains powerfully antibacterial grapefruit seed extract and tea tree oil, along with healing l-lysine, echinacea, bee propolis, honey, cajeput oil, calendula, and goldenseal in a natural base. ❋ Kat James (2007)

About a mile behind and to the east of the village the hills commence, but they are very barren, being covered with scanty coarse grass and scattered trees of the Melaleuca cajuputi, from the leaves of which the celebrated cajeput oil is made. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Leaves, twigs, and seed capsules are crushed and distilled to produce niaouli oil, which together with cajeput oil from Melaleuca cajeputi has pharmaceutical and other specialty uses. ❋ Unknown (1983)

Broad-leaved tea tree, tea tree, paperbark tea tree, belbowrie (Australia); melaleuca, cajeput, paperbark, punktree (USA); niaouli (New Caledonia) ❋ Unknown (1983)

Constant care, stuffed bodies, and soaking in benzoline, are the deterrent agents; camphor is a pleasant fiction, so is wool soaked in creosote, phenic acid, cajeput oil, crystals of napthelin, etc. -- in fact, it may be laid down as an indisputable doctrine that no atmospheric poison is of the slightest avail against mites. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)

_Eucalyptus piperita_, a powerful solvent of caoutchouc, evidently very similar, if not altogether identical, with the oil of cajeput. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

From the odorous leaves of the _Arbor alba_ is extracted a portion of the aromatic cajeput oil. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The only important exports, however, are cajeput oil, a sudorific distilled from the leaves of the _Melaleuca Cajuputi_ or white-wood tree; and timber. ❋ Various (N/A)

Take of oil of cajeput 1 oz., oil of cloves 1 oz., oil of peppermint ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

This cajeput or cajuputi oil is extracted from the white ❋ Unknown (1887)

Maria José at the Palazzio has suffered greatly from distressing ulcers caused by mosquito bites, so I gave her some of my cajeput, assuring her that it was a sure preventive of attacks from the insects. ❋ Unknown (1887)

On we pressed, sometimes through a sparse wood of the white-barked cajeput-tree, by a pleasant grass-grown road, sometimes through stretches of alang-alang grass, terribly trying to the men, for the feet must be lifted as if wading through waves, and it reflects cruelly the fierce heat of the sun, while the sharp blades cut their legs. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Rattans from Borneo, sandal-wood and bee's-wax from Flores and Timor, tripang from the Gulf of Carpentaria, cajeput-oil from Bouru, wild nutmegs and mussoi-bark from New Guinea, – are all to be found in the stores of the Chinese and Bugis merchants of Macassar, along with the rice and coffee which are the chief products of the surrounding country. ❋ Unknown (1887)

I do not know what I should have done without cajeput-oil. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Acidity of the stomach and the attendant irritation may be allayed by the following mixture: Calcined magnesia, one drachm; refined sugar, one drachm; subnitrate of bismuth, one-half drachm; oil of cajeput, ten drops. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

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