almond oil

almond oil

noun Chemistry.
1.
Also called sweet almond oil, expressed almond oil. a colorless to pale yellow fatty oil expressed from the seeds of the sweet almond, used in preparing perfumes and confections.
2.
Also called bitter almond oil. a colorless to yellow, poisonous oil obtained by steam distillation from the almond meal of bitter almond seeds: used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, medicines, and perfumes.

Origin:
1835–45
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Almond oil is always a great word to know.
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a vessel, commonly a glass bulb with a long neck bent downward, used for distilling or decomposing substances by heat
existing as free, uncombined atoms
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almond oil

noun
pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds 
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