Benzoin is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BENZOIN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fragrant aromatic resin obtained from eastern Asian trees of the genus Styrax
• a fragrant gum resin obtained from a tropical East Asian tree, used in medicines, perfumes, and incense.
• a white crystalline aromatic ketone present in benzoin resin.
• gum resin used in ointments, perfume, etc
• A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
• A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.
• The spicebush (Lindera benzoin).
• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation
• used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a gum resin

Words related to BENZOIN

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Words that contain BENZOIN

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How to use BENZOIN in a sentence

• The material thus separated from the benzoin is called flowers of benzoin in commerce, and by chemists is termed benzoic acid.
• Dissolve benzoin in strong alcohol, by the aid of heat, and add to the solution, whilst hot, hydrochloric acid, in sufficient quantity to precipitate the resin.
• The gum or resin called dulang is named by us scented benzoin from its peculiar fragrance.
• They have a practice of perfuming their hair with oil of benzoin, which they distil themselves from the gum by a process doubtless of their own invention.
• Their hair is variously adorned with flowers and perfumed with oil of benzoin.
• A small branch of the prickly bamboo was planted in the area also, and benzoin was kept burning during the ceremony.
• Bata-salindong also contains many districts, in some of which benzoin, and in others fine gold, is collected.
• Butar yields neither camphor, benzoin, nor gold, and the inhabitants support themselves by cultivation.
• It grows to a much larger size than the cultivated kind, and yields a different sort of resin called kaminian dulong or sweet-scented benzoin.
• Pacheco stood on to Barus, a place renowned for its gold trade, and for gum benzoin of a peculiar scent, which the country produced.
• They should be thoroughly cleansed and dried as above and painted with the compound tincture of benzoin.
• Being crowned with olive, anointed with balsam of benzoin, and otherwise prepared, he was purified with fire and water, and went through seven stages of initiation.
• There seems to be no proof that Benzoin was known even to the older Arab writers.

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