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Vas⋅e⋅line

[vas-uh-leen, vas-uh-leen]
Trademark.
a brand of petrolatum.
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Vas·e·line   (vās'ə-lēn', vās'ə-lēn')   
A trademark used for a brand of petroleum jelly.
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Word Origin & History

Vaseline 
1872, trademark for an ointment made from petroleum and marketed by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., coined from Ger. Wasser "water" + Gk. elaion "oil" + scientific-sounded ending -ine. Robert A. Chesebrough was of the opinion that petroleum was a product of the underground decomposition of water.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: vas·e·line
Pronunciation: 'vas-&-"lEn, "vas-&-'lEn
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -lined; -lin·ing
: to apply petrolatum to vaselined gauze —F. G. Slaughter> <vaselined microscope slides>

Main Entry: Vaseline
Function: trademark
—used for a preparation of petrolatum
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Vaseline Vas·e·line (vās'ə-lēn', vās'ə-lēn')

A trademark used for a brand of petroleum jelly.

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